My favorite movie is Step Up. I don't know if it actually is my favorite movie, but it's the first one that comes to mind, and I'm always in the mood for good dancing and music. Also, I like Channing Tatum.
In Step Up, Tyler, a troublemaker from a lower class Afro-American neighborhood is sentenced to community service at the Maryland School of Arts, after breaking into and vandalizing the school. His unbelievable hip-hop street-dancing skills are discovered by Nora, a privileged ballet dancer at the school accepts Tyler's offer to help her rehearse for her senior showcase while her partner recovers from an injured ankle. Throughout the movie they become close and Tyler begins making new friends with other students. He seems to be turning over a new leaf until Nora's dancing partner returns, and Tyler leaves Nora. He ultimately must make a decision to fall back into his rebellious failure of a lifestyle, or follow his heart dancing and "step up" to a better life.
COst of Production: $12 million
Box office sales: $65,328,121
DVD/Home video Rentals Dec 18 ranking: 9
DVD/Home video Rentals Feb 12 ranking: 41
TRIVIA
All of the artwork displayed in the school comes from Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, a high school in Baltimore County. The artwork is from students in the visual arts prime.
Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum, the actors who played the protagonists of this movie, got married in July of 2009. They met on the set of Step Up.
Before getting into modeling, Channing Tatum worked as a construction worker, a mortgage broker, a salesman at the cologne counter of Dillard's, and a worker in a puppy/kitty nursery.
