• Center Stage is a dramatic film about teenage students at a ballet school in New York. The movie focuses on the struggles of the dancers as they try to be accepted by the American Ballet Company.

• Fast Facts

  1. Release date: May 12, 2000
  2. DVD release date: October 24, 2000
  3. Director: Nicholas Hytner
  4. Screenwriter: Carol Heikkinen
  5. Producer: Laurence Mark
  6. Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  7. MPAA Rating: PG-13
  8. Run time: 115 minutes
  9. Genre: Musical Drama
  10. Filming Locations: New York, New Jersey
  11. Domestic gross: $17,200,925BoxOfficeMojo: Center Stage
  12. Production budget: $29 millionBoxOfficeMojo: Center Stage

• Plot Summary

  The story centers around on a young ballet dancer named Jody. She and the other dancers each have problems they need to face as they fight to impress strict academy teachers and the director of the American Ballet Company. Even though Jody is told that her body type is not right for ballet, she still fights for the opportunity to dance professionally.

• Cast

  • Amanda Schull as Jody Sawyer
  • Zoe Saldana: as Eva Rodriguez
  • Susan May Pratt as Maureen Cummings
  • Peter Gallagher as Jonathan Reeves
  • Donna Murphy as Juliette Simone
  • Debra Monk as Nancy Cummings
  • Ethan Stiefel as Cooper Nielson
  • Sascha Radetsky as Charlie Sims

  
  

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