Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and cowritten by Baz Luhrmann. The film, which was Luhrmanns first, is the first in his The Red Curtain Trilogy of theatremotifrelated films it was followed by Romeo Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
Strictly Ballroom tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings Paul Mercurio, and his struggle to establish his personal style of dance on his way to win the PanPacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship. Scotts steps are not strictly ballroom. Scott comes from a family with a history of ballroom dancing and has been training since childhood. Scotts mother Shirley teaches ballroom dancing, and his father Doug meekly handles maintenance chores at the dance studio.After losing a competition to a rival pair, because Scott started dancing his own steps, his dancing partner Liz Holt Gia Carides leaves him for the rival male, Ken Railings, after his partner Pam Short breaks both her legs in a car accident. With only weeks before the next PanPacific competition, tryouts begin to find Scott a new dance partner but, unknown to his parents, Scott secretly begins rehearsing with frumpy outsider Fran Tara Morice, a beginner dancer at his parents studio. ........
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