2006 · drama · romance · comedy
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Directed by Randall Miller1h 43m2006
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
Our read: Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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