SYNOPSICS
Out of Step (2002) is a English movie. Ryan Little has directed this movie. Alison Akin Clark,Michael Buster,Jeremy Hoop,Nicolle White-Robledo are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. Out of Step (2002) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny soon finds herself financially broke and spiritually lost in her new surroundings. She quickly makes friends with Paul Taylor, a witty Mormon student filmmaker who finds Jenny's ambitious dream to be the subject for his next film project. Keeping her mind diligently focused on dance proves harder than she expected as she finds herself falling in love with David Schrader, a dark and mysterious New York musician. As their relationship builds Jenny starts to struggle in her religious beliefs and her new lifestyle. Paul's true romantic feelings soon surface and Jenny finds things to be a little more than she can handle. Her ...
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Out of Step (2002) Reviews
Out of Step is Out of Place
I saw Out of Step with my family this weekend (mainly because I know the lead actress). All I can say is that this movie makes The Singles Ward look like Academy Award Winner material. The lines were so bad and full of cliches that I think someone in a high school TV Productions class could do better. The acting was pretty weak and the editing and cinematography was probably done by someone who has never taken a film class. I hated this movie in so many ways. I want to scream just thinking about it. Please please if we must make movies about Mormon culture, let them at least be watchable.
Surprisingly Good LDS Film
Though I am LDS, I've grown wary of LDS cinema. The God's Army movies were outstanding, I enjoyed The Singles Ward, and even Charly was quite good in my opinion, but I'm constantly on my guard when watching a Mormon-made movie for cheesy sentiment and shameless propaganda of my religion. I got this movie at a store closing sale and figured I'd try it out, but was fully prepared for cheesy dialogue and preachiness. I was pleasantly surprised. The movie is about a Mormon girl from Utah named Jenny (Alison Akin Clark) who lives for dance. She goes to New York University to pursue it but is turned down for the first scholarship she auditions for. She vows to work hard and get the scholarship next year. The first fellow Latter-Day Saint that she meets, a film student named Paul (Michael Buster), asks to make a documentary chronicling her progress, and they become friends, though Jenny clicks her tongue at his views on dating--"I'm not ready to grow up just yet," he explains, when he tells Jenny that his ambition is to date a girl from every one of the fifty states. Meanwhile, Jenny quickly becomes obsessed with local musician Dave (Jeremy Elliott), who is not LDS but is otherwise her dream man, and they begin dating. Jenny gradually loses interest in pursuing her dream of dancing and toys with the idea of giving everything up for Dave. While watching this love triangle unfold I rolled my eyes, thinking Jenny would either (A) convert Dave and live happily ever after with him, gently letting Paul down and finding someone else for him, or (B) cheerfully realize she's in love with good little LDS Paul after all. But the movie surprises you. The relationships between Jenny/Paul and Jenny/Dave are both so well developed and lovingly portrayed that soon I realized any possible romantic outcome would be bittersweet and would be unexpected either way, for the movie favors neither relationship explicitly. While beautifully showing the sweet and easy friendship between Jenny and Paul, it also shows absolute empathy and understanding for anyone who has ever fallen in real love with someone outside their faith, and doesn't attempt to simplify or undermine the experience with a dismissive "The LDS person is always better for you, that's that." Instead, we get to consider the emotional complexities involved right along with Jenny, and no deus ex machina of "Dave was just waiting for someone like her to show him the gospel!" comes to the rescue. For non-LDS viewers (though I suppose there are unlikely to be any), the movie is also refreshingly light on shoving our religion down the audience's throats. Non-LDS characters are positively and respectfully portrayed and the movie never once tries to convert them. One of my favorite scenes took place in Jenny's philosophy class, where the teacher challenges Jenny to prove the existence of God. Though Jenny is flustered at the question and can offer no better argument than what she feels in her heart, her non-member friend offers an assertive and insightful speech for the existence of God. I thought this was very refreshing to not make the LDS character the awe-inspiring one with all the conviction and answers, and this is coming from an LDS viewer, mind you. All in all, I quite enjoyed this movie and was impressed with its overall emotional maturity. Non-LDS viewers may be unmoved, and so may LDS viewers for that matter, but personally I'd recommend it.
Nice try and that's all...
We saw this film hoping that its technical problems would not be so noticable because the story would draw us in. We did not enjoy this movie at all. A few amusing moments, but nothing more. Some scenes, inparticular the scene with the mother and daughter in the kitchen were very poorly staged. It seemed like a bad rehearsal that was stuck into the movie. I'm sure it won't be so bad on video, but definitely not a movie to see on the big screen. Who wants to see a close up on a face that is over-lit and out of focus on a fifty foot screen? Ryan Little's efforts as the DP in The Singles Ward was much more rewarding. Mormon movies can be good, but this one wasn't.
if i wasn't Mormon, it would seem like a cult.
this movie has a relatively good story line. and yes, i am a Mormon so don't think i'm bashing the religion. but honestly, if i wasn't a Mormon i would think being Mormon is being in a cult. the fact that she doesn't stay with the guy she loves just because he isn't Mormon, and sorta goes with the guy she had no feelings for because he is Mormon is wrong. now, had they made the non-Mormon guy a jerk, or him start stuff about her religion, that would make more sense. the acting wasn't too great. the actors to me, seemed like they didn't want to be there. i thought this movie represented Mormonism completely wrong. WE ARE NOT A CULT!
I am LDS and I hated this film. It really Stinks, A lot.
There have been quite a few independent LDS films coming out. I was expecting another "God's Army." I was disappointed. It had terrible acting, it didn't flow well at all. And the dialogue made me want to throw up. The word "corny" barely begins to describe this movie. I took my 14 and 16 year old cousins to watch it. There were times I wanted to walk out with them. I thought some of the love scenes were very mature for them. The main character makes some very immoral decisions. And although the rest of the world might think it is alright., as an LDS viewer I thought it had no place. Please do not watch this movie unless you want to bored out of your mind.