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name | Shall We Dance? |
director | Peter Chelsom |
producer | Simon FieldsBob WeinsteinHarvey WeinsteinJames Tyler |
writer | Audrey WellsMasayuki Suo (original screenplay) |
narrator | Richard Gere |
starring | Richard GereJennifer LopezSusan SarandonStanley TucciLisa Ann WalterRichard JenkinsBobby CannavaleOmar Benson MillerMya HarrisonJa RuleNick Cannon |
music | John AltmanGabriel Yared |
cinematography | John de Borman |
editing | Robert Leighton |
distributor | Miramax Films |
released | |
runtime | 106 minutes |
country | United States |
language | English |
budget | $50 million |
gross | $170,128,460 |
preceded by | Shall We Dance? }} |
At first, it seems like a mistake. His teacher turns out to be not Paulina (Jennifer Lopez), but the older Miss Mitzi (Anita Gillette), and John proves to be just as clumsy as his equally clueless classmates (Chic and Vern, Bobby Cannavale and Omar Miller respectively) on the dance-floor. Even worse, when he does meet Paulina, she icily tells John she hopes he has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date. But, as his lessons continue, John falls in love with dancing. Keeping his new obsession from his family and co-workers, John feverishly trains for Chicago's biggest dance competition. His friendship with Paulina blossoms, as his enthusiasm rekindles her own lost passion for dance. But the more time John spends away from home, the more his wife Beverly (Susan Sarandon) becomes suspicious. She hires a private investigator to find out what John is doing, but when she finds out the truth, she chooses to discontinue the investigation and not invade her husband's privacy.
John is partnered with Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter) for the competition, although his friend Link (Stanley Tucci) steps in to do the Latin dances. Link and Bobbie do well in the Latin dances, and while John and Bobbie's waltz goes well, John hears his wife and daughter in the crowd during the quickstep, and is distracted by trying to find them. He and Bobbie fall and are disqualified, and John and Beverly argue in the parking structure. John quits dancing, to everyone's dismay.
Paulina, having been inspired by John to take up competing again, is leaving to go to Europe, and is having a going-away party at the dance studio. She sends John a letter, but he's not convinced to go until his wife leaves out a pair of dancing shoes that she bought him. He goes and meets her at work, convinces her that while he loves dancing, he still loves her just as much, and they dance. They go to the party and John and Paulina have one last dance before she leaves.
The end scene shows everyone afterwards: Link and Bobbie are now together; Chic, who was actually gay, dances at a club with his partner; Miss Mitzi finds a new partner, and they are happy together; John and Beverly are back to normal and dance in the kitchen; Vern, newly married to his fiancée, dances with her at their wedding; the private investigator that Beverly hired, Devine (Richard Jenkins), starts up dance lessons; and Paulina, with a new partner, competes at Blackpool, the competition that she had lost years before.
!Shall We Dansu, 1996 | ! Shall We Dance, 2004 | ! Comments |
Shohei Sugiyama (Kōji Yakusho), an accountant | John Clark (Richard Gere), a lawyer | In the original, Sugiyama's secrecy is partly due to cultural ideas about dancing. In the remake, John's secrecy is because he doesn't want to hurt his wife. He loves her, but feels a need to dance. |
Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari) | Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) | In the original, Mai's father is a dance instructor who owns the Kishikawa school. In the remake, Paulina's father is a dry-cleaner. |
Tomio Aoki (Naoto Takenaka) | Link Peterson (Stanley Tucci) | In the original, Aoki's shame was based upon cultural fears related to ballroom dancing. In the remake, Link's shame was based upon cultural fears which connect dancing with homosexuality. |
Toyoko Takahashi (Eriko Watanabe) | Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter) | There is not much of a difference between the original and the remake. Bobbie is actually very much the American version of the loud dance addict Toyoko. |
Tokichi Hattori (Yū Tokui) | Chic (Bobby Cannavale) | In the original, Hattori is a proud and self-proclaimed dance enthusiast who wanted to please his wife, who herself is into ballroom dancing. In the remake, Chic wanted to dance to pick up women but later found out otherwise. |
Masahiro Tanaka (Hiromasa Taguchi) | Vern (Omar Benson Miller) | In the original, Tanaka did not begin with a girlfriend. In the remake, Vern states that he wants to learn to dance to impress his fiancee. |
Tamako Tamura (Reiko Kusamura) | Miss Mitzi (Anita Gillette) | In the original Tamako was a senior instructor. In the remake, Miss Mitzi is the owner of the school. |
Masako Sugiyama (Hideko Hara) | Beverly Clark (Susan Sarandon) | In the original, Masako is the typical devoted and soft-spoken wife of a Japanese salary man. The remake made sure that Beverly Clark would be the typical working mom that American audiences would relate to and with much sympathy for her romanticism. |
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