Dancing Heart

Cute unique story. Could have been more powerful if they connected the music more with overcoming grief.

I managed to find this movie on Amazon Prime streaming.

I really enjoyed the last 10 minutes or so, it pulled together many different themes touched on in the movie. The only deficiency is that everything develops very slowly with frequent unhappiness and angst making it hard to stay attended to it. But overall worthwhile.

Lucas Till, 24ish during filming, is high school teenager Josh Harvest. He is living with his mom but continues to get in trouble so as a last resort of sorts is sent away to live with his dad. Josh isn't very kind to his parents, in fact he isn't very kind to anyone.

Part of his conditions are to seek regular therapy, and that role is played by Josh Duhamel as Alex who also has some pains from an incident when he was in the military and a friend died.

Then music enters the equation, plus high school dancers who need to step up to be competitive, and Josh helps them fill that role. The themes aren't new, the story is interesting to see how characters grow from their unhappiness and get on with life.

I went into this film feeling fairly neutral about it. Given my expectations, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Lucas Till gave a wonderful performance as the lead. He was vulnerable, yet open enough to let someone else in. His struggle to make this happen becomes the heart and soul of the movie. Some reviewers said the script was unoriginal. I disagree. It explored love, trust, and betrayal in an intimate way. These are timeless themes. The dance routines were quite good. Josh Duhamel likewise gave a brilliantly understated performance as the therapist helping the lead.

The movie definitely honors the veterans, especially their families. Yes, the soldiers are brave and make sacrifices, but so do their families. The film explores the heavy toll service and sacrifice has on the family. It also ties in neatly with the pain felt by the lead actor.

I recommend this indie movie. It's a lot better than some of the stinkers I've seen these days.

It'S cool, Music is fun, make me think of All these contest show The story is family friendly it's simple, the actor are good simple and effective.

So STOP believing all these so call EXPECT that come tons and tons of word to justify there genius brain lol

WATCH THIS is you like music, Dance and don't want to think about other film alike, it's ENTERTAINING is that the ideas of movie ?

or do you prefer all these sic movie with " cliché " that we see over and over These movie that show so many hidden msg, THIS BRAVETOWN Movie is nice Not the movie of the yrs but decent regarding all the crap movie we see.

It'S young, entertaining and it's simple The young boy struggle with normal teens problem

PS: I'm 55 years old I can imagine what problem teen may have these day how they need to adapt so I find to be a good representation struggle

So pls enough with all these EXPERT comment this movie is worth watching if you like dancing and music and specially talent show as I do :)

You have to be VERY brave to sit through this horse-crap of a movie,.I feel AWFUL,.How the "really good" cast could try to "act" their way through it is commendable,.I guess actors need money,.But wow,.I think a DJ movie about Zombies with athletic aspirations to become Junkies would have been a better premise,.Ouch,.Worst movie I can remember,.I have a GREAT memory : )

Do yourself a favor and RUN from this movie,.I guess the one positive is that there are a slew of actors in this flick that can look back and say that THIS is the worst movie they were ever in,.

Please guys,.Never write a script about post-war trauma and dance competitions ever again,.How it was done ONCE is incredible