A Time For Dancing

• Larisa Oleynik: Juliana Michaels
• Shiri Appleby: Samantha Russell
• Peter Coyote: Wyn Michaels
• Patricia Kalember: Sandra Michaels
• Amy Madigan: Jackie Russell
• Shane West: Paul
• Scott Vickaryous: Eli
• Anton Yelchin: Michael Jackson
• Lynn Whitfield: Linda Derricks

A Time For Dancing ( Alternative title: Time For Dancing - give up hope never to ). 's An American drama film from 2000, directed by Peter Gilbert, the screenplay was written by Kara Lindstrom based on the novel by Davida Wills Hurwin.

Action

The friendly girl Juliana Michaels and Samantha Russell attend a dance school and dream to study at the Juilliard School. Russell lives with her single mother and works part-time to pay for the lessons. Sometimes they appear to class tired and unfocused.

Michael sometimes feels pain she ignored. In their cancer is diagnosed. The girls do not break their lessons from in spite of the disease. Michaels is applying for a place at a prestigious dance school and dies before the letter comes with the message that she was adopted. Russell reading at the end of this letter; their voice-over says, she wished someone had written the letter, the Michaels knew so well as themselves

Reviews

Movie service wrote that the film was a " sentimental youth drama about friendship and the power of dreams in all respects under excesses " sick.

The magazine wrote Cinema, the film was a " shallow melodrama with lots of music ."

Awards

Peter Gilbert was nominated in 2004 for the Directors Guild of America Award. Kara Lindstrom was nominated in 2004 for a Daytime Emmy.

Background

The film was shot in Los Angeles. He played in the Italian cinema, an approximately 3 million euros. In Germany it was published in January 2003 directly to DVD.