The generations change. But the choices remain the same.
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- tmdb76622195on TMDB · Sep 20238/10
The year 1977 was very good for director Herbert Ross. Not only did Ross direct this film, which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, but he also helmed "The Goodbye Girl," which received five nominations. Out of the twenty acting nominees that year, seven were from two of his films. If you love ballet, you will love "The Turning Point." If you have flashbacks to your little sister's bit part in "The Nutcracker" the same way military veterans flashback to combat, you might still like "The Turning Point." Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) is a former dancer now running a ballet school with her husband Wayne (Tom Skerritt) in Oklahoma City. The American Ballet Company comes through, and Wayne and Deedee reunite with all their old friends and rivals- both ingredients can be found in Emma (Anne Bancroft). Emma and Deedee competed for the same part back in the day, but Deedee ended up pregnant and Emma went on to be a star of the company. Deedee, however, gave birth to Emilia (Leslie Browne), who is now a supreme dancer in her own right. She joins the company, and Deedee and Emilia move to New York City for a summer. Childless Emma makes herself Emilia's surrogate mom, and Deedee finds hers
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Cast
- Anne BancroftEmma
- Shirley MacLaineDeedee
- Tom SkerrittWayne
- Mikhail BaryshnikovYuri
- Leslie BrowneEmilia
- Martha ScottAdelaide
- Antoinette SibleySevilla
- Starr DaniasCarolyn
- Marshall ThompsonCarter
- James MitchellMichael
Crew
- Herbert RossDirector
- Arthur LaurentsWriter
- Robert SurteesDirector of Photography
- John LanchberyOriginal Music Composer
- William ReynoldsEditor
- Arthur LaurentsProducer
- Herbert RossProducer
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