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Musical Chairs
Directed by
Susan Seidelman
PG-13
2012
1h 42m
Drama
,
Romance
5.9
37%
78%
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When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
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Cast of Musical Chairs
Leah Pipes
Mia
E.J. Bonilla
Armando
Priscilla Lopez
Isabel
Jamie Tirelli
Bernardo
Nelson Landrieu
Wilfredo
Joey Dedio
Chico / Producer
Angelic Zambrana
Rosa
Morgan Spector
Kenny
Dominic Colón
Julio
Philip Willingham
Daniel
Laverne Cox
Chantelle
Miriam Cruz
Yaira
Susan Seidelman
Director
Marty Madden
Writer
Janet Carrus
Producer
Musical Chairs Ratings & Reviews
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
While Susan Seidelman's musical drama is contrived and formulaic, it gets a free pass mainly for being such a charming romance that at least tries to break its predictability.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
Having been a dancer for a good part of my life, I found 'Musical Chairs' quite inspiring.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
Simpatico if shallow, struggling to be a life-affirming, feel-good fantasy.
Common Sense Media
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Injured dancer learns new moves in inspiring, trite tale.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Most of "Musical Chairs" settles for being simple, familiar and ineffective, though I suspect it'll warm a few hearts.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A feel-good romantic fantasy that is likely to inspire a hollow laugh among some people in wheelchairs.
Television Without Pity
Ethan Alter
It's a square genre picture that's just unassuming enough to be moderately diverting.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
The little-known art of wheelchair ballroom dancing is a worthy subject, but this clumsy romantic comedy is like a partner who keeps stepping on - or rolling over - your toes.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
By the time the mirror ball finally spins, we have long since lost interest.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Would-be 'triumph of the human spirit' saga set among wheelchair-bound dancers blows it through shallow concept and characterizations.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Seidelman's unflagging enthusiasm, which extends to her buoyant cast, winds up giving this superficial story a bit of unexpected depth.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An endearing romantic drama about a creative young Puerto Rican with a passion for dance.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Charming and upbeat, and it's stuffed with great, vibrant, insanely catchy music.
Variety
Andrew Barker
[The film] 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.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
In volleying between sitcom saucy and melodrama maudlin, all that's missing are a braying laugh track and feigned tears.
Village Voice
Eric Hynes
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.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The schmaltzy and benign tale of a ballroom dancer who accepts and transcends her unexpected disability through the power of art and love.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A delightful romance between an upper-middle-class WASP and a working-class Latino.
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