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The Company (2003)

PG-13   |    |  Drama, Music, Romance

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Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

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  • Emily Patterson in The Company (2003)
  • Malcolm McDowell at an event for The Company (2003)
  • Neve Campbell and Domingo Rubio in The Company (2003)
  • The Joffrey Ballet
  • Neve Campbell in The Company (2003)
  • Robert Altman at an event for The Company (2003)

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Awards

2 nominations.

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22 May 2004 | desperateliving
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| 9/10
Some of the dances are tiny religious experiences. The film doesn't look nearly as good as some of Altman's others, but there are flashes of awesome beauty: a topless male dancer alone in a room with golden beams of light, and Neve Campbell in her bath. The movie looks at the queeny pretensions of the boys (and their fathers), the dancers' sex lives (who are more '60s than their instructor knows), and the company leader, played by Malcolm McDowell, whose occasional flakiness is caught by one black dancer. I couldn't help but think of McDowell as an Altman self-criticism: an elderly director working with small budgets, prone to artiness, who champions art as being organic, who rounds up a large crew of performers and calls them "babies." The day-in-the-life shapelessness of the movie didn't at all bother me, though one character, who asks to stay in a dancer's apartment, is dropped pretty quickly. And James Franco is in it. 9/10

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Malcolm McDowell and James Franco both leapt at the chance to work on a film with Altman.

Quotes

Alberto Antonelli: ALL THAT... went into this ballet!

Goofs

After the female dancer finishes her solo, a single male voice is clearly heard shouting "Bravo!" from the audience. The correct word is "Brava", the feminine of bravo.

Crazy Credits

The title is not shown until the end of the opening credits.

Soundtracks

Creative Force
Music by John Zeretzke
Featured Music Selection: "Ray One"
Performed by John Zeretzke and M.B. Gordy III
By arrangment with Zeretzke Music

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Plot Summary

Genres

Drama | Music | Romance

Details

Release Date:

20 May 2004

Language

English

Country of Origin

Germany, USA

Filming Locations

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$93,776 28 December 2003

Gross USA:

$2,283,914

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,415,017

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