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Overview

User Rating:
6.2/10   3,444 votes
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Director:
Robert Altman
Writers (WGA):
Neve Campbell (story) &
Barbara Turner (story) ...
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Release Date:
5 February 2004 (Netherlands) more
Genre:
Drama | Music | Romance more
Plot:
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(10 articles)
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User Comments:
9/10 more (117 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Neve Campbell ... Loretta 'Ry' Ryan

Malcolm McDowell ... Alberto Antonelli

James Franco ... Josh
Barbara E. Robertson ... Harriet (as Barbara Robertson)

William Dick ... Edouard
Susie Cusack ... Susie
Marilyn Dodds Frank ... Mrs. Ryan
John Lordan ... Mr. Ryan
Mariann Mayberry ... Stepmother

Roderick Peeples ... Stepfather
Yasen Peyankov ... Justin's Mentor
Davis C. Robertson ... Alec - Joffrey Dancer (as Davis Robertson)
Deborah Dawn ... Deborah - Joffrey Dancer
John Gluckman ... John - Joffrey Dancer
David Gombert ... Justin - Joffrey Dancer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Company - Das Ensemble (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 on appeal for brief strong language, some nudity and sexual content.
Runtime:
Canada:112 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:112 min | Argentina:112 min
Country:
Germany | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)
Certification:
Iceland:L | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:PG | Brazil:12 | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Singapore:NC-16 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (re-rating on appeal) | Argentina:Atp | USA:R (original rating) (certificate #39884) | Canada:PG (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Altman shot 10 ballets in full specially for the film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At about 1h 45m into the film, during the curtain call, those dancers were standing at different positions from different angles. Watch for the two men who were wearing blue and red bodysuits, they were standing at different places. more
Quotes:
Alberto Antonelli: ALL THAT... went into this ballet! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in O Lucky Malcolm! (2006) more
Soundtrack:
My Funny Valentine more

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19 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
9/10, 22 May 2004
9/10
Author: desperateliving from Canada

Some of the dances are tiny religious experiences. The film doesn't look nearly as good as some of Altman's others, but there are flashes of awesome beauty: a topless male dancer alone in a room with golden beams of light, and Neve Campbell in her bath. The movie looks at the queeny pretensions of the boys (and their fathers), the dancers' sex lives (who are more '60s than their instructor knows), and the company leader, played by Malcolm McDowell, whose occasional flakiness is caught by one black dancer. I couldn't help but think of McDowell as an Altman self-criticism: an elderly director working with small budgets, prone to artiness, who champions art as being organic, who rounds up a large crew of performers and calls them "babies." The day-in-the-life shapelessness of the movie didn't at all bother me, though one character, who asks to stay in a dancer's apartment, is dropped pretty quickly. And James Franco is in it. 9/10

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