Shall We Dance

directed by Peter Chelsom
Category: "Comedy"
Year of Release:2004
Date Added:12/06/2007
Date Watched:11/12/2004
Description:John Clark (Richard Gere), a bored, overworked estate lawyer sees a beautiful woman in the window of a dance studio and decides to take lessons. He finds Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) enchanting, but when he asks her out to dinner, she says no and tells him not to show up again unless he wants to dance. He decides he does. Meanwhile his wife Beverly (Susan Sarandon) thinks he's having an affair and hired a detective to follow. John enters a dance competition with a woman from the studio and is doing well until he sees his wife and daughter in the crowd, at which point everything goes wrong. He explains to his wife that he was embarrassed to tell her he was unhappy when he so many reasons to be happy. She forgives him and their marriage is happier going forward.
My Rating:8

Reviews for Shall We Dance

Review - Shall We Dance

I gave this movie an 8 based entirely on this quote:

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet ... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things ... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

I thought that was a powerful statement on marriage.

Reviewed by Roger on 2007-12-11 13:39:21

Back to the list