A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
Acting
Gena Rowlands at 84 — every eyeroll is masterclass
Writing
Stage origins show; dialogue snaps like a dance step
Director
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rowlands and playwright Richard Alfieri were longtime friends; she originated this role on stage in 2003. The film waited eleven years because she refused to be recast.
Cheyenne Jackson was 29 playing opposite an 84-year-old legend — a rare Hollywood age gap that actually serves the story's intergenerational loneliness rather than romance.
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