Sexy Dancing and Great Acting

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2020)

There's enough great music in this romantic comedy to call it a musical, and the dancing may have been the start of a trend that led to the arrival of "Dancing with the Stars" on television in 2005. Richard Gere plays a married man who becomes enchanted by a dancer, Jennifer Lopez, he sees from the window of the train he rides home from work. The dance scenes with Lopez are rife with that magic life ingredient, spice. The tango in the dark is so sexy, and the chemistry between Gere and Susan Sarandon, as his wife, would make anybody want to get married. This is a remake of a 1996 Japanese film of the same title that is well worth seeing. ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013