The Turning Point (1977)

Directed by

Herbert Ross

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two former ballet dancers reunite after years apart. One chose a family life while the other stayed with her career. Their meeting stirs up old regrets and tensions as they watch a new generation of dancers.

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What happens

The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. It stars Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, along with Leslie Browne, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Tom Skerritt. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture; however, the film did not win any Oscars, and it is tied with The Color Purple (1985) with that distinction for most nominations and no wins. The script is a fictionalized version of the real-life Brown family and the friendship between ballerinas Isabel Mirrow Brown (whose daughter, Leslie Browne, stars in the film) and Nora Kaye. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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