Center Stage (2000)
Director:
Nicholas Hytner
Tagline:
« Life doesn’t hold tryouts. »
Actors:
Jody
Audition Teacher
Mr. Sawyer
Mrs. Sawyer
Nervous Mother
Rating:
(22’828 votes)
(22’828 votes)
Quotes:
« Maureen Cummings: If this is what I wanted, I wouldn't be as unhappy as I've been. I'd have friends, I'd sleep well, I wouldn't throw up half the things that I eat.
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« Nancy Cummings: You watch your weight. There's nothing wrong with that!
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« Maureen Cummings: Mom, I'm telling you I'm unhappy and sick. I can't do this any more!
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« Nancy Cummings: But it's your dream. You just don't give up on your dream.
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« Maureen Cummings: It's your dream, and it matters more to you than anything ever did to me. So I did it, but I can't any more.
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« Nancy Cummings: I know what regret feels like, and I don't want that for you.
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« Maureen Cummings: That's what ballet would be. A life of wishing that I found something I loved, instead of something I just happened to do well. I'm not you, Mom. You didn't have the feet. I don't have the heart.
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« Maureen Cummings: Erik got injured today. And do you know the first thing I thought when I saw him go down?
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« Jim Gordon: What?
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« Maureen Cummings: "I wish that was me." So that made me think, you know, 'cause that's not a normal reaction. How much of what you liked about me was because I was a ballet dancer, and how much because I was me?
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[In pas de deux class]
« Sergei: I am your slave.
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« Eva Rodriguez: I'd believe it more if you weren't staring at your fucking reflection when you said it.
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« Instructor: If someone wants to hear profanity, Miss Rodriguez, they can take the subway. They don't need to spend sixty dollars on a ballet ticket.
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[to Sergei]
« Instructor: Though she has a point.
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Trailer:
Center Stage
Runtime:115 minutes
Plots:
A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
The education of three young students, Jodie, Eva and Maureen, as they study at the American Ballet Academy. Life isn’t what they expected at the esteemed ABA, and all three face problems along the road. Jodie doesn’t have the “ideal” body for dancing, Eva doesn’t have the right attitude, and Maureen doesn’t have the heart. Along the way, they learn that love can be found in unlikely places, and dancing should be a passion, not a duty.
A group of young dancers arrives at the ABA (American Ballet Academy) in New York to an audition. Twelve are selected to dispute the opportunity to be chosen to a workshop to have a chance to become professional dancers. Among the female dancers, the gorgeous Jody Sawyer, the rebel Eva Rodriguez and the anorexic Maureen Cummings share a room and become friends. The lead dancer and choreographer Cooper Nielson has a personal dispute with the director and choreographer Jonathan Reeves since he married his partner and girlfriend Kathleen Donahue. Along the days, there are friendship, tension, romance, frustration and many training in the lives of the participants.
