Synopsis
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
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Cast
- Neve CampbellLoretta 'Ry' Ryan
- Malcolm McDowellAlberto Antonelli
- James FrancoJosh
- Barbara E. RobertsonHarriet
- William DickEdouard
- Susie CusackSusie
- Marilyn Dodds FrankMrs. Ryan
- John LordanMr. Ryan
- Mariann MayberryStepmother
- Roderick PeeplesStepfather
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Tribune
A funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Why did it take me so long to see what was right there in front of my face -- that The Company is the closest that Robert Altman has come to making an autobiographical film? - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
A wonderfully vivid and engaging theatrical experience. - 80
Variety
Robert Altman takes an elegant, appealingly unemphatic look at the world of ballet. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results. - 75
New York Daily News
Knowing that the director is Robert Altman gives you a good idea of what to expect: a demimonde of locker-room chatter, catty sniping, backstage politics, high art and low self-esteem. Altman constructs the movie with the same cross-currents of his other ensemble movies. - 75
New York Post
Campbell is a sweet presence and a capable dancer, featured in a theatrical pas de deux on an open-air stage during a wild thunderstorm that is one of the film's visual highlights. - 70
Chicago Reader
Neve Campbell, who cowrote the story with scenarist Barbara Turner, plays one of the dancers; although her character isn't especially interesting, her story furnishes a minimal narrative thread to hold the rest together.
