Synopsis
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
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Cast
- Robert CarlyleFrank Keane
- John GoodmanSteve Mills
- Marisa TomeiMeredith Morrison
- Mary SteenburgenMarienne Hotchkiss
- Elden HensonYoung Steve Mills / Samson
- Donnie WahlbergRandall Ipswitch
- Sean AstinKip Kipling
- David PaymerRafael Horowitz
- Ernie HudsonBlake Rische
- Camryn ManheimLisa Gobar
Recommendations
- 70
Washington Post
This film does other power-of-dance movies one better by downplaying the dancing and underscoring what its brethren often lack: a compelling, wrenching and wonderfully inspiring story. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Expanded by writer-director Randall Miller from a nostalgic half-hour short he made while a student at AFI, this well-intentioned film about loss, grief and new beginnings gets bogged down in syrupy cliches and blunt self-help dialogue. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is an elegiac journey to a sweeter, more civilized place in the heart. Predictable and decidedly old-fashioned in its sensibility, the film is likely to win over audiences if not critics. - 50
New York Post
Overall it's got two left feet - and charm is in dangerously short supply. - 50
New York Daily News
The movie delivers the promised ballroom action, but not the charm. And if you think the title is endless, wait till you see Goodman's death scene. - 40
The New York Times
Despite a gloriously baroque performance from Mr. Wahlberg - attempting moves certified only for Antonio Banderas - Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School remains irredeemably soggy. - 38
Miami Herald
Amounts to Chicken Soup for the Soul-style torture -- unless you like that kind of thing. - 30
Village Voice
This flat-footed male weepie musters an insurance ad's worth of clichés about the importance of busting a move in middle age-and it strains so hard to do so that it's almost perversely compelling.
