Brian Cox, Julian Littman, Keri Russell, Paul McLean, Russell Smith (VII) ...( see more  see more... ) , Theo Fraser Steele , William Ash

In the upper-class section of Belfast, 18-year old Collegiates Private School student Lucy McLoughlin yearns to prove her worth to her entrepreneur father Sid, and to herself. Lucy lives to dance and ...( read more  read more... )dances to win: specifically, the Regional Latin Dance Finals. Her dance partner is her possessive boyfriend Oliver Parr, who's also captain of the Collegiates soccer team. Not far from Lucy's part of town, yet worlds apart, is St. Joseph's, a boy's school in working-class West Belfast. There, 18-year-old Danny Mitchell is the most eager player on the school's soccer team -- his dream is to play professionally for Belfast United. To be more like the newly imported Brazilian star player, Carlos Rega, and to improve his own game, Danny sets out to get rhythm by learning to dance Latin-style at the same dance studio that Lucy attends.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: John Forte

Release Date: August 4, 2000

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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2001

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  • December 8, 2007
    A very cute movie!
  • October 27, 2009
    great movie, just expresses love in a different way...
  • April 9, 2009
    I liked it, it wasn't uber cheesy
  • January 24, 2009
    comedia romántica adolescente sin ningún sentido que intenta unir el fútbol y el baile pero se queda en el intento
  • November 5, 2008
    Decent story. Its entertaining enough. But dance with me and shall we dance fares much better for serious dancing
  • August 18, 2008
    keri Russell early days.....ok
  • August 11, 2008
    cute variation one the theme rich girl meets poor boy.
  • July 16, 2008
    it was a normal movie with lots of laughs and good sports. i like the plot.
  • February 23, 2008
    I LOOOVE this mvie haha
  • September 2, 2007
    beautiful people, beautiful game

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