Dancin': It's On! is a 2015 American musical romantic comedy film directed and co-written by David Winters in his final film prior to his death in 2019. The cast is comprised numerous winners and runner-ups from the dance competition TV show So You Think You Can Dance, led by Witney Carson and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp,[3] with Gary Daniels and Winters.
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Directed by | David Winters |
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Produced by | David Winters |
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Cinematography | Alan Roberts |
Edited by | Alan Roberts |
Music by | Misha Segal |
Production company | East Side Story |
Distributed by | Medallion Releasing |
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million |
Box office | $27,000[2] |
The film was released on October 30, 2015 by Medallion Releasing, to largely negative reviews from critics and audiences.
The movie is about Jennifer (Carson), a girl from Beverly Hills, California, who is sent on a summer holiday in to meet her estranged father Jerry (Daniels) who owns a famous hotel in Panama City, Florida. While there she falls in love with Ken (Wespi-Tschopp), a boy who works there. The two compete in a dancing competition after becoming romantically involved even with disapproval from her father.[4]
Los Angeles Times reviewer Michael Rechtshaffen, gave the film a largely negative review which concluded, "the low-budget production, with its soapy dialogue and cheesy video effects, should have splurged for someone to help choreograph the leads' stiffly executed dramatic exchanges."[5] The Seattle Times reviewer Soren Andersen rated the film one star out of four, criticizing the "simplistic" plot and stiff acting of the lead characters.[6]