Dance With Me (1998)

After his mother dies, an emigrant (Chayanne, a popular Latin pop star) from Cuba arrives in Texas to work for a man (Kris Kristofferson) he suspects might be his biological father. The father owns a dance school and the boy finds himself attracted to one of the instructors (Vanessa Williams) but she has set her aim, not on romance but winning the World Open Dance Championships in Las Vegas. Directed by Randa Haines (CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD), this romantic dance drama has a thin storyline as old as the movies itself. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl, the end. But it's not the plot that holds the movie together, it's the dancing. DANCE WITH ME was made before the proliferation of dance competition shows on TV (think DANCING WITH THE STARS) so it suffers a bit because of the overfamiliarity. But the dance numbers are sensational and exciting, even Joan Plowright has a dance number! So if you're into dance and can suffer through the uninteresting narrative, you'll be rewarded by the dance numbers. With Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant and Harry Groener.