A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
- Won 3 BAFTA Awards
- 19 wins & 20 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFran's house was a set built on to an existing railway station. In the most expensive shot in the entire film, a train was hired to pass by the house twice. Once, a real food inspector came onto the set and demanded paperwork because he thought it was a real shop.
- GoofsWhen Shirley Hastings finally rips the calendar pages off in anger shouting, "It was his year," some of the pages underneath also show days marked off and the Pan-Pacific date circled in red.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the film credits on VHS, a message appears saying "And the dancing continues...", and then it plays the video that was made at the time for John Paul Young's Love Is In The Air, the video having been made to go with the film's release.
- SoundtracksLove Is In The Air
Vocal by John Paul Young
Written by Harry Vanda & George Young
(c) 1978 J. Albert & Son Pty Ltd
by Courtesy of Albert Productions
Featured review
It's a love story. It's a story about being yourself. It's story of following your dreams and not giving up. It's a story with DANCING!!
A boy who loves to dance HIS WAY loses at the major dancing competition. Why or why can't he dance like the others. This is killing his mother. No one wants to be his partner now. He is TOO MUCH!
He works as an instructor at his parents dance studio. His mom wants him to dance again, but the right way. His dad doesn't say much. He is too busy reliving his old dancing days when he was happier. There is a girl who dances at the studio who wants to be his partner. She is too plain and clumsy to be taken seriously. Will she ever get the chance?? Will the boy ever make the world see his way?? Will his mom ever chill out?? Will his Dad end up in the Nuthouse??? For the answers to these questions, please get this film.
Seriously, you will love this film. Though it follows closely to the "DIRTY DANCING" story, it is much more than that. The characters are just so off the wall you will laugh your arse off. The love story is kind of sweet, but the DANCING is great!
8 out of 10
A boy who loves to dance HIS WAY loses at the major dancing competition. Why or why can't he dance like the others. This is killing his mother. No one wants to be his partner now. He is TOO MUCH!
He works as an instructor at his parents dance studio. His mom wants him to dance again, but the right way. His dad doesn't say much. He is too busy reliving his old dancing days when he was happier. There is a girl who dances at the studio who wants to be his partner. She is too plain and clumsy to be taken seriously. Will she ever get the chance?? Will the boy ever make the world see his way?? Will his mom ever chill out?? Will his Dad end up in the Nuthouse??? For the answers to these questions, please get this film.
Seriously, you will love this film. Though it follows closely to the "DIRTY DANCING" story, it is much more than that. The characters are just so off the wall you will laugh your arse off. The love story is kind of sweet, but the DANCING is great!
8 out of 10
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- Also known as
- Австралійське танго
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- A$3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,738,022
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $145,977
- Feb 15, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $11,757,444
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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