Step Up

He’s a defiant rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore’s tracks.  She’s a privileged dancer from an elite performing arts school.  Their worlds couldn’t be more different but when their fates collide, the sparks between them fly, igniting an exhilarating hip-hop-fueled fairy tale about making your one shot at an improbable dream come true. Featuring an exciting cast of multi-talented young newcomers, STEP UP is a gritty story of transcendence driven by music and dance. 

Tyler Gage (CHANNING TATUM) has grown up all his life on the rough streets of the city and he knows he’s unlikely to ever make it out of there. But after a brush with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at the city’s Maryland School of the Arts, everything changes.  That’s when he meets Nora (JENNA DEWAN), the school’s prima ballerina, an alluring diva who is desperately searching for someone to replace her injured partner before the school’s all-important Senior Showcase. Spying Tyler’s moves, Nora can’t help but notice he’s got a raw but natural gift. She decides to take a chance on Tyler, but as they begin to train, the tension between them, and their polar opposite backgrounds, skyrockets. The only thing standing between Tyler and the void are his dreams of making it off the streets – and the only thing standing in the way of Nora’s obviously brilliant future is the Senior Showcase.  Now, with everything on the line, Tyler will have just one performance to prove to Nora, and to himself, that he can step up to a life for larger than he ever imagined.

Touchstone Pictures and Summit Entertainment present STEP UP, featuring the directorial debut of acclaimed choreographer Anne Fletcher, who came to the fore with the run away teen hit “Bring It On.”  The film stars newcomers Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, as well as R&B superstar Mario who appears as an aspiring musician and Academy Award®-nominee and Golden Globe® winner Rachel Griffiths.  Also featured in the cast is rap legend  "Heavy D," as well as Damaine Radcliff, Drew Sidora and De'Shawn Washington.  Written by Duane Adler (“Save the Last Dance”) and Melissa Rosenberg (“The OC”), the film is produced by Patrick Wachsberger (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) and Erik Feig (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) for Summit Entertainment, and Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot for Offspring Entertainment.  The executive producer is John H. Starke.  The behind-the-scenes talent includes Michael Seresin (“Fame,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”) as director of photography, Nancy Richardson as editor, Shepherd Frankel as production designer and Alix Hester as costume designer.

Director
Anne Fletcher

Cast
Channing Tatum
Jenna Dewan

Distributor: Golden Scene Company Limited

Release date: 9 Nov , 2006

Category: IIA

Duration: 103mins

Cinemas:
Palace IFC / Palace APM / Broadway Mongkok / Broadway Olympian City / Broadway Kwai Fong/ Broadway Tsuen Wan / Broadway Yuen Long / Broadway Kingswood Ginza / Broadway Kowloon Bay / Broadway Cyberport / AMC / UA Langham Place / UA TImes Square / UA Telford / UA Whampoa / UA Citygate / Golden Gateway / GH Mongkok / MCL JP / MCL Kornhill / Cinema Metro

HK Website: http://www.atnext.com/jp/stepup/