DANCE!

DANCE! is a 1983 dance-romantic comedy film produced by Mike Medavoy, directed by Blake Edwards, screenplay by Bernard Slade and Marshall Brickman. It stars Lara Molina, Dana Plato, Aindan Quinn and Deivid Keith, it also contains in its secondary cast Eugene Roche, Valerie Perrine, Perry King, Farrah Fawcett, Richard Schaal, Miriam Colón, Michael Jayston, Sophia Loren and Ian McKellen. Its music was composed by Joseph "Joe" LoDuca.
The plot follows Charleigh Rose and Jeannette Long, who arrive in the city of Los Angeles unemployed and work as waitresses in a nightclub, managed by Mackenzie "Wolf" Thurmond. However, their lives change when there is a gymnastics competition, and they sign up and end up being both qualified, gaining the chance to perform at a great gymnastics attraction that will pass through the city. The management of the company behind the great attraction that will take place in Los Angeles, Ross Jamieson, has as his partner the swindler and scoundrel Edgar Fountaine, who is not pleased with the presence of the girls in the attraction, since the girls hired by his wife, Olivia Johnson, who would help them the most in a coup against Ross, ended up being defeated by Charleigh and Jeannette. However, Edgar has several tricks up his sleeve to dethrone his partner and become the sole head of the business and achieve all the relevance of the company and also a life of greater luxuries than what he already has, and to do this he will start by creating a rivalry between the protagonists. Meanwhile, Charleigh and Jeannette go through their first experience of love, when they meet Roland and Tommy, respectively, who are police officers and who will be crucial to the downfall of the villains.
The film was released in the United States on October 12, 1983, to a warm reception by critics and audiences, and becoming the 3rd highest-grossing film of 1983. Lara Molina won her second Oscar thanks to the film, which also won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. DANCE! closed its box office with $148.6 million.
==Plot==
Charleigh Rose and Jeannette Long leave the interior of Nevada for Los Angeles after finishing high school, where they stood out for being excellent gymnasts, and seek to go to the big city in search of the chance to become professional gymnasts; The two are also great friends, and they swear to always be willing to be each other's safe haven during this search for stardom. When they both arrive in Los Angeles, however, they end up clashing with reality, and realize that they would have to get a regular job until a good chance comes along.
Charleigh and Jeannette get a job as waitresses at a nightclub, which belongs to businessman Mackenzie Thurmond, known as Wolf. The boss, although demanding and sometimes nagging, offers good help to the young women, such as a room in an apartment. The girls have to deal with several comical situations, while waitresses at Wolf's establishment, until their big chance arises, a gymnastics competition that would give two girls the chance to perform in a great gymnastics attraction. Wolf manages to help the two sign up and participate in the contest. The two manage to be qualified to participate in the great attraction that would take place in about 2 months, however, they are quite affronted by two other girls who also compete in the contest, Mariah and Lauren. 
The agency that organizes the attraction is managed by Ross Jamieson, a man with vast business knowledge who sees immense potential in the girls in his agency, however, at his side is Edgar Fountaine, a man of dubious nature and with suspicious opinions and speeches, but who never generated greater distrust on the part of Ross, however, the fact is that Edgar plans alongside Olivia Johnson, his wife, to find some way to remove Ross from command of the company, having her all to himself. Mariah and Lauren, the two young women antagonistic to Charleigh and Jeannette, are, in fact, two hired by Olivia, who sought to enter the event to be part of a plan by the villainous couple who actually wanted to impose a false accusation of harassment about Ross.
Edgar, at first, thinks it will be simple to remove the protagonists from the middle of their plans, and tries to make the girls delegitimized, accusing doping, which would lead to another competition being held, but the girls count on Wolf, who manages prove their innocence. In a second attempt, Edgar and Olivia try to get Charleigh and Jeannette to get into trouble at the nightclub they work at, however, the two manage to prevent what the villains are looking for. In the third attempt, however, Edgar and Olivia are more daring, and try to get them drunk, and to do so, Olivia takes them both to a luxurious restaurant, in order to get them drunk with wine whose alcohol is doubled, but, ends with Olivia herself getting drunk.
Meanwhile, Charleigh and Jeannette meet Roland Thomas and Tommy Vicenzo, two police officers, when they take a break from work and decide to go relax at Wolf's nightclub; Jeannette ends up bumping into Tommy and getting his clothes dirty, while Charleigh has a misunderstanding with Roland. The next day, the two meet the boys again, this time on duty, and apologize, which arouses surprise and admiration in them. On the other hand, we also have the two young women serving as "cupids" for Wolf, who seeks to win over Claudine, whom he has had a crush on for a few years, but fears that she will reject him due to the business he runs and his reputation as a scoundrel.
Tommy and Roland decide to return to the nightclub to invite the girls to be their companions at a dinner, which raises doubts on the part of the girls, but Wolf, in a romantic mood with Claudine after the help of the protagonists, says he will go to the same party. They, therefore, give security to the girls. At the restaurant, while Wolf and Claudine sit at a table where just the two of them are, Charleigh, Jeannette, Roland and Tommy sit together, while the two, who sat facing Wolf's table, receive some tips by Wolf, after that moment, Jeannette and Charleigh actually fall in love with the officers.