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best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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 (Amanda Schull), the rebel Eva Rodriguez (Zoe Saldana) and the anorexic Maureen Cummings (Susan May Pratt) share a room and become friends. The lead dancer and choreographer Cooper Nielson (Ethan Stiefel) has a personal dispute with the director and choreographer Jonathan Reeves (Peter Gallagher) since he married his partner and girlfriend Kathleen Donahue (Julie Kent). Along the days, there are friendship, tension, romance, frustration and many training in the lives of the participants. "Stage Center" is a film that impresses first because of the ballet dancers, most of them professionals. The screenplay with entwined storylines and the natural and powerful performances of these young and unknown actors and dancers are also highly attractive. It seems that they are indeed fighting for a chance to be recognized by Hollywood as great actors and actresses, trying to show their skills to the studios. It shows a splendid direction of the excellent Nycholas Hytner. The choreography and soundtrack are also great. Certainly it is a lovely and wonderful movie, highly indicated for fans of 'Fame', dance, ballet and good films. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Sob a Luz da Fama" ("Under the Spotlight of the Fame")

I understand that a movie must be about emotional expression, otherwise people would not like it, but a film about dancing should be, in my view, more about expression through dance. This film was not like that and, even if it had some nice dance scenes in it, the rest was sadly disappointing.I may be biased, since I am watching the second movie in as many days about a self-obsessed blonde dancer who believes her feelings are more important than anything else, but I found the main character hard to sympathize with and the rest of them really cliché. The black girl with talent but lack of self control, the black gay guy, the blonde dance god and the nice muscular perfect boyfriend, the bitchy perfectionist and the overcontrolling mother, they are all in here, playing their cardboard parts in hard to believe scenes on the music of Michael Jackson and the like.Bottom line: if you are passionate about dance and/or ballet, you might want to check it out, but bare in mind that the dancing here could have been replaced by sports or literature or automechanics and the script would have remained mostly untouched and the film very similar to something you've seen before on TV.

I love this movie too much. For the first time, I watched it when I was a high school student. I love the plot, characters, performances, music and so on.Jody Sawyer is a girl who loves to dance and wants to be a dancer. Although she has a very pretty face, her legs are not very as good as a professional ballet dancer. Maureen Cummings belongs to the school too. She has special talent and very good legs as a ballet dancer. But she was missing one important thing, "the strong passion of dancing." As time passes, the final performance day is becoming closer. Wheater the ballet company employs you or not is really up to the final performance. And of curse, someone who dances in the center stage is the closest person to be accepted. Who is going to get the position of "center stage"....? Although, this is a fictional movie, the characters were played by the real dancers. And the plot was great. Especially, I like Maureen Cummings' scene very much. She is so beautiful and the scene she discovers her own identity and happiness is really touching. Also music is great. I have a soundtrack.

CENTER STAGE **** Engaging modern-day musical about the meeting of various ballerinas (both male and female) at a particular ballet school where they attend, and how they respond to each other and the training they undertake. Unlike other motion pictures of this type that casts actors for their actorial experience rather than dancing ability, 'Center Stage', features newcomers who had real-life training in dance, a real plus. Within the screenplay lies a fine balance of competitive dance numbers, interesting character dynamics, and comic humor which adds to the film's entertainment. Excellent choreography by Susan Stroman.