It clings almost to the exact particulars, if slightly rearranged. A simpering love story alternates with highly eroticized professional dance routines, which are ascribed to amateurs in a colorful working-class bar.
Water is poured on women.
They pretend to like it. The music is explosively banal. The Jennifer Beals variant at least had Jennifer Beals. Quite an accomplishment. When discovered, Perabo's Violet is serving beers and slices in a Jersey pizzeria 40 miles down the Garden State Parkway.