The Turning Point

Name: The Turning Point
Director: Herbert Ross
Released: 1977

Herbert Ross

1977

Synopsis

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.

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100
Variety
The Turning Point is one of the best films of its era. It's that rare example of synergy in which every key element is excellent and the ensemble is an absolute triumph.
80
The New York Times
The Turning Point is entertaining, not for discovering new material, but for treating old material with style and romantic feeling that, in this day and age, seem remarkably unafraid.
80
Time
It is hard to imagine anyone, with the possible exception of preadolescent males, who will not, in the end turn on to Turning Point.
80
Washington Post
The most attractive and persuasive movie about ballet performers ever created for a mass audience.
80
Time Out
There's some beautiful dancing and a wealth of detail about the world of classical ballet. Interesting and entertaining.
70
Newsweek
The Turning Point has its flaws - some overwritten scenes and lapses into staginess and sentimentality - but they are those of heady excess and are easily forgiven. One has the sense of a project perfectly matched to the people who made it. [28 Nov 1977, p.97]
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The dancing is lovely, the story is secondary. [17 Nov 1977]
60
TV Guide Magazine
The Turning Point features a few laughs, lots of maudlin moments, superior dancing from a host of real ballerinas, and an occasionally perceptive script.