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White Nights (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2006
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mikhail Baryshnikov & Gregory Hines | |
Performer: | Helen Mirren, Isabella Rossellini, Jerzy Skolimowski, John Glover, William Hootkins, Shane Rimmer, Daniel Benzali & Geraldine Page | |
Directed by | Taylor Hackford | |
Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp & William Steinkamp | |
Screenplay by | James Goldman & Eric Hughes | |
Composition by | Michel Colombier | |
Story by | James Goldman | |
Produced by | Taylor Hackford & William S. Gilmore | |
Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Original Song: Lionel Ritchie
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
'80s dance drama has some violence, profanity.
Full Review
Common Sense Media
[S]urprisingly watchable....It's a treat to see a dance film where the numbers don't bring the narrative to a grinding halt. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/5 --
A manipulative movie that spoils the few pleasures it delivers.
Spirituality and Practice
...Hackford has made a film with good looks....Skolimowksi exudes intelligent villainy....Helen Mirren has some intense, tearful scenes...
Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
White Nights is made by people who seem much more comfortable with dance than with the requirements of the Hollywood thriller. It comes to life in the dance sequences, and then drifts away again.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The in-between moments are interesting, and the dancing is spectacular.
TheMovieChicks.com
Product Description:
When Nikolai "Kolya" Rodchenko's plane makes an emergency landing in the Soviet Union, the world-famous dancer, played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, has reason to feel terrified: now that the defector is back on Russian soil, the authorities may refuse to let him leave again. But the KGB actually has a subtler and more clever plan: they want Kolya to return of his own free will. They send him to Siberia to meet with another famous defector, Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines), a talented African-American tap dancer, who has requested Russian citizenship because he'd become fed up with racism at home.
Despite their clashing ideologies, the two men find that their love of dance overcomes political differences. But Kolya is determined to go back to the United States, and Raymond is just as determined not to leave his wife, a Soviet citizen. In a strange role reversal, the two must find common ground for either to get what they want. Baryshnikov's graceful, gravity-defying balletic dancing and Hines's loose-limbed, seemingly effortless tap dancing are among the film's best moments.
Despite their clashing ideologies, the two men find that their love of dance overcomes political differences. But Kolya is determined to go back to the United States, and Raymond is just as determined not to leave his wife, a Soviet citizen. In a strange role reversal, the two must find common ground for either to get what they want. Baryshnikov's graceful, gravity-defying balletic dancing and Hines's loose-limbed, seemingly effortless tap dancing are among the film's best moments.
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