How She Move (2007)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Ian Iqbal Rashid

Writer:

Annmarie Morais (written by)

Release Date:

25 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Set your dreams in motion.

Plot:

Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing. |

Plot Keywords:

Step Dancing | Stepping | Teen | Dance | African American

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tre Armstrong	...	Michelle
Boyd Banks	...	Mike Evans
Clé Bennett	...	Garvey
Ardon Bess	...	Uncle Cecil
Conrad Coates	...	David Green
Keyshia Cole	...	Herself
Eve Crawford	...	Seaton Teacher
DeRay Davis	...	Himself
Shawn Fernandez	...	Trey (as Shawn Desman)
Nina Dobrev	...	Tall Girl in Bathroom
Kevin Duhaney	...	E.C.
Brennan Gademans	...	Quake
Ingrid Gaynor	...	Pam Green
Balford Gordon	...	Neighbourhood Guy
Patrick Hayes	...	Customer

Also Known As:

Step (Canada: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some drug content, suggestive material and language.

Runtime:

USA:94 min | Argentina:94 min

Country:

Canada | USA | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Ireland:12A | Canada:PG | Australia:M | Sweden:11 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:PG | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Celluloid Dreams

Goofs:

Continuity: In the final dance scene, the windows in the car disappear and reappear during shots.

Quotes:

Raya Green: It's funny, isn't it? How one moment can change a million after it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Ellen Page/Wilco (#33.6)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Out Here

This movie is better than average dance movie

I watch them all.

It's not better than the amazing ones (_Strictly Ballroom_, _Shall we dance?_ (Japanese version), but it's completely respectable and pleasingly different in parts.

I am an English teacher and I find some of the ignorance about language in some of these reviews rather upsetting. For example: the "name should scream don't watch. 'How she move.' Since when can movie titles ignore grammar?"

There is nothing inherently incorrect about Caribbean English grammar. It's just not Canadian standard English grammar. Comments about the dialogue seem off to me. I put on the subtitles because I'm a Canadian standard English speaker, so I just AUTOMATICALLY assumed that I would have trouble understanding all of it. It wasn't all that difficult and it gave a distinctly different flavour as the other step movies I have seen were so American.

I loved that this movie was set in Toronto and, in fact, wish it was even more clearly set there. I loved that the heroine was so atypically cast. I enjoyed the stepping routines. I liked the driven Mum character. I felt that many of the issues in the movie were addressed more subtly than is characteristic of dance movies.

In summary, if you tend to like dance movies, then this is a decent one. If you have superiority issues about the grammar of the English standard you grew up speaking, your narrow mind may have difficulty enjoying this movie.