Love this movie! Annabeth Gish is luminous and believable. The romance is also lovely. She is being rescued from her own cautionary approach to life. The final dance is also quite lovely. The firebrick ride is a little cornet but it does not hurt anything. As a dance movie, it has more elaboration of characters. Her costar is of course handsome and ready for swooping her up. All dance romances get compared to Dirty Dancing, where the couple helps each other in some unexpected ways. This movie is similar. For my last line of comments, let me say I have spent an hour trying to get a copy of this movie! That is how much I like it.

I love this movie, it took me years to finally get it on ebay. I love salsa dancing and Kamar De Los Reyes was the perfect man to play Nick character, he represent salsa dancing so well. I really wish Tessie though would have been the one to play (amy's)character,she played her character with confidence and she showed she can really dance, and I could watch her and Nick dance all day long, the look so good together.The only thing I am having trouble now is just getting the songs that come out in this movie, so if anyone knows them please post a note here,or I'm @yahoo.com.The songs are excellent, and I already know that the main song "born to fly" is not available,which is ashame it lyrics are so inspiring as the movie.

Nicole Sullivan, Kamar de los Reyes' body (Oh yes!!), Tessie Santiago (*singing* "Behind the mask . . ."), and the choreography, this movie would have been terrible. That's unfortunate, because I feel VH1 has produced some of the most original movies/series on Basic Cable.I like stories that have cultures coming together, because that's how it should be (!), but I REALLY feel they should have gotten a better lead actress. Annabeth Gish acted like she ate a cold, 3 day old burrito prior to shooting this movie. She was extremely dry. There was a moment when she was supposed to look pensive, but she looked braindead for about 40 seconds. I thought it was an outtake. Nicole Sullivan would have been so much better in the lead role.The movie had a decent plot, but the screenplay lacked. Plus, everyone was pushing someone away from something they wanted without a significant reason for pushing them in the first place. That's not drama, that's a reason to take a screenwriting class--or to pick another career.I have to give this one a 4, because what I did like, kept it from being disqualified. I can't save the last dance, because the dancehall is closed--indefinitely.

Annabeth Gish has always been one of my favorite actresses, and she does a very good job in this movie, especially the dance sequences. Kamar de los Reyes is excellent. Too bad these two fine actors weren't given better material.The plot is very much "Dirty Dancing", with novice dance student falling for charismatic Latin dance instructor, and a whole lot of very sensuous dancing going on. Potential spoiler: the ending is cribbed right out of "Dirty Dancing", except it's even cornier.I enjoyed the movie's visuals, and tried to tune out the schmaltzier parts of the storyline. BTW, the two women who play Annabeth's coworkers are excellent; unfortunately, in the TV version I saw, they scrunched the credits to the side to make room for a promo, and I couldn't get their names.If you like fantasy love stories (I do), and can suspend your brain for a while, you'll enjoy this movie. I gave it a 7, largely because of some very fine acting, and wonderful dance scenes.