Hope Dances

Jun 3, 2017

1h 30m

★ 6.7

Overview

Hope Douglas has a dream but her parents have thrown her into battle between playing sports and dancing ballet. When a tragedy strikes, Hope has to make a difficult choice that will decide her fate - which way does she go?

Genres

Family

Drama

Production Companies

Community Television of Santa Cruz County

Kornorstone Pictures

Dillon Consulting

Hope Dances Trailers

Cast

Yuri

Michael Swan

Jay Douglas

Michael Cotter

Hope Douglas

Avarose Dillon

Tina Douglas

Sunny Doench

Vivi

Karen Kahn

Gigi

Astrid McWilliams

Natasha

Sasha Desola

Kayla

Gianna Gularte

Dani

Elaina Greenwalt

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

6.6

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7.1

Annaluise & Anton

Mar 11, 1999

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

10.0

Filthy Betrayal

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On the eve of graduation, a high school student finds herself dealing with both college applications and an unfaithful boyfriend.

6.9

Center Stage

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A group of 12 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.

3.5

Summer League

Mar 18, 2013

When Allie (Danielle Evon Ploeger) returns home during her final college summer break, she doesn't anticipate staying long, but that all changes when there's a death in the family and Allie inherits her childhood home. Her life-long BFF, Kenzie (Kelsey Thomas) helps her deal with her loss, and other family drama, by forcing her to join The Browncoats, the team she captains in the small town's co-ed softball league. Kenzie's advice for Allie is simple... When life sucks, just grab your glove, and grab a ball. Everything just sort of fades away when you're playing catch.

6.9

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8.0

The Red Shoes

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A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

7.9

Limelight

Oct 16, 1952

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

7.6

Yeh Ballet

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0.0

Immortal Melodies

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Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in love with a ballet dancer, which disappoints the famous operetta singer Marie Geistinger…

7.7

Black Swan

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6.0

The Black Swans

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Violetta is a ballerina in a provincial town. She is the daughter of an opera singer and a violinist. The years pass in anticipation of the big role, and the men she meets do not understand her and she remains alone. When the chance finally comes - to play the role of Odette, Violetta realises she has failed.

6.6

The White Crow

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The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

0.0

Gaining & Losing

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What happens to friendship when a shared dream is abandoned? Gaining and Losing explores a friendship torn apart when a young dancer combats an eating disorder and her talented friend can't understand.

7.4

Little Tickles

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Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

0.0

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At a prestigious performing arts school, a teenage male ballet dancer desires to be at the top of his class while refusing to listen to his body.

7.4

Summer Interlude

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During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

6.6

Mao’s Last Dancer

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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

5.1

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A musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence.