What other demographic can we pander to?

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2004)

The film-makers have tossed a bone to about every audience sliver they can think of, they just left out any real sense of the existential angst Richard Gere's character is supposed to be going through. This movie has the same soft-sell moralistic sense of "Pretty Woman". Forget the fact that Gere's John would be having wild monkey love with the pretty dance instructor if it were up to him. But thank goodness she's "on the shelf". The whole redemption through dance, and it's apparent social stigma never plays true. It's not REALLY the super hot dance instructor he wants, it's DANCE!! It might have worked for a Bill Macy, but Richard's a little stretched on making this one believable. The height of this silliness culminates in the parking garage scene where Gere is outed, but which made absolutely no sense to me.