Synopsis
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
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Cast
- Leah PipesMia
- E.J. BonillaArmando
- Priscilla LopezIsabel
- Jamie TirelliBernardo
- Nelson LandrieuWilfredo
- Joey DedioChico
- Angelic ZambranaRosa
- Morgan SpectorKenny
- Dominic ColónJulio
- Philip WillinghamDaniel
Recommendations
- 75
Miami Herald
Musical Chairs is about overcoming impossible odds and never giving up and chasing your dreams – all that afterschool-special stuff - but it's also charming and upbeat, and it's stuffed with great, vibrant, insanely catchy music. No Bee Gees, though. - 60
Time Out
In many ways, this effervescent drama from Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) upends conventions, even when it sticks to a familiar narrative path. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Lightweight but likeably uncynical. - 50
Slant Magazine
The schmaltzy and benign tale of a ballroom dancer who accepts and transcends her unexpected disability through the power of art and love. - 50
New York Post
The story never quite gets into the groove. - 42
The A.V. Club
Musical Chairs wants to speak eloquently and powerfully for the disabled. Instead it speaks down to them in the vernacular of bad television comedies, cheeseball underdog dance movies, and abysmal soap operas. - 40
Village Voice
All would be forgiven if Seidelman weren't so damningly dispassionate about dance, cutting up and away from movement and devaluing the thing we'd countenance so much cheese in order to see. - 40
Variety
This would-be inspirational picture has its heart in the right place, but with default-setting characters, loudly telegraphed emotional beats and lack of any real sizzle to enliven its maudlin moralizing, it all feels like a cursory run through a well-trodden routine.
