Musical Chairs (film)

Musical Chairs is a dance film starring Leah Pipes, E. J. Bonilla, Auti Angel, Laverne Cox, and Priscilla Lopez, and directed by Susan Seidelman. It is a romance involving a couple who participates in wheelchair ballroom dancing. In development for eight years before it was finally made, the film played at several festivals starting in 2011, including the Woodstock Film Festival. It was released on March 23, 2012. It played only a week in New York City, where it was entirely filmed, but as of March 30, 2012, opened in other locations in platform release. It premiered on cable TV HBO in December 2013.

On the sidewalk below, Mia turns to cross the street, when she struck by a taxi and rendered a paraplegic, paralyzed from the waist down. Upon learning of this, Daniel jilts her. Armando tries to boost her confidence and persuades her and other disabled people in the local rehabilitation center, including a punky Latina, Nikki Auti Angel and a wounded Iraqwar veteran, Kenny, Morgan Spector to enter a wheelchair ballroom dancing competition. Despite the opposition of his mother Priscilla Lopez, Armando and Mia gradually fall in love and enter into a relationship, while Armandos uncle Wilfredo Nelson Landrieu falls in love with Chantelle Laverne Cox, a disabled trans woman at the rehab center. Before the competition, Armandos mother, who has been maneuvering to get Armando hooked up with the beautiful Rosa Angelic Zambrana, does her best to undermine even to the point of casting spells the relationship between him and Mia, which has become sexually intimate by now. But Rosa understands, and generously breaks off with Armando.On the night of the competition, Mia panics when she sees Daniel in the audience watching her, and instead of dancing, rushes to her dressing room and begins to pack her things. Armandos mother sees what is happening, rushes to Mias dressing room, admits that she was wrong, tells Mia that Armando loves her and encourages her to reunite with Armando and win the competition. ........

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