White Nights PG-13

White Nights
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  • 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

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1985 - Best Original Song: Lionel Ritchie

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Rotten46%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,421
Rating: 3/5 -- '80s dance drama has some violence, profanity. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jul 12, 2016
[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
Sep 1, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- A manipulative movie that spoils the few pleasures it delivers.
Spirituality and Practice
Aug 21, 2004
...Hackford has made a film with good looks....Skolimowksi exudes intelligent villainy....Helen Mirren has some intense, tearful scenes...
Variety
Nov 6, 1985
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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/5 -- The in-between moments are interesting, and the dancing is spectacular.
TheMovieChicks.com
Aug 11, 2002

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 7,313
  • UPC: 043396159037
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