I'll be honest. I was a professional dancer many decades ago so I am all to aware of how brutal and heartbreaking nature of the business.

But this thing knocked the wind out of me repeatedly.

A heart warming meeting? Kick to the soul. A child in a nationally regarded dance company?

Sigh.

I've always loved Debbie Allen and admired her work.

After this I want go have her canonized, NOW.

And I doubt she'd agree, which makes this all the more reasonable.

If you missed this, you either watched an entirely different movie than I did, or you didn't actually watch the movie at all and made your evaluation based on hearsay or you rubber stamped an analysis/rating so you fit into your group.

I dare you to watch the movie with the sound on. And listen. And grieve that we still live in this United(?) States.