Take the lead

Resource Information

The work Take the lead represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Take the lead

Statement of responsibility

New Line Cinema presents ; a Tiara Blu Films production ; produced by Diane Nabatoff, Michelle Grace, Christopher Godsick ; written by Dianne Houston ; directed by Liz Friedlander

Contributor

• New Line Cinema Corporation
• New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Tiara Blu Films
• Banderas, Antonio
• Brown, Rob, 1984-
• Friedlander, Liz
• Godsick, Christopher
• Grace, Michelle
• Houston, Dianne
• Nabatoff, Diane
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-

Subject

• Ballroom dancing -- Drama
• Ballroom dancing -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Comedy -- Feature
• Comedy films
• Dance -- Feature
• Feature films
• High school students -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Musical -- Feature
• Musical films
• Musical films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Volunteer workers in education -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy
• Comedy films
• Dance
• Drama
• Feature films
• Musical
• Musical films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• engspa
• eng

Summary

Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He even suggests that if they work hard enough, they might have a shot in a citywide dance competition, which offers a first prize of $5,000. As they morph into Astaire's and Charisse's, and as Pierre's lessons instill self-mastery, self-restraint, and self-respect, these previously aimless kids blossom into confident, self-possessed young adults

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Choreography by JoAnn Jansen ; music by Aaron Zigman and Swizz Beatz ; editor, Robert Ivison ; director of photography, Alex Nepomniaschy

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: Rated PG-13
• MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material, language and some violence

Language note

In English, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish ; close-captioned in English

LC call number

PN1995.9.T4

LC item number

.T35 2006

PerformerNote

Antonio Banderas (Pierre Dulaine), Rob Brown (Rock), Yaya DaCosta (LaRhette), Dante Basco (Ramos), John Ortiz (Mr. Temple), Laura Benanti (Tina), Marcus T. Paulk (Eddie), Jenna Dewan (Sasha), Alfre Woodard (Augustine James)

Runtime

118

Technique

live action