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Budget. $2.5 million [1] Box office. $1,576,500. Slow Dancing in the Big City is a 1978 American romantic drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Paul Sorvino and Anne Ditchburn. This was the first film made by Avildsen after 1976's Rocky won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
Feb 16, 1979 · Slow Dancing in the Big City: Directed by John G. Avildsen. With Paul Sorvino, Anne Ditchburn, Nicolas Coster, Anita Dangler. An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- John G. Avildsen
- 1979-02-16
Anne Ditchburn (born October 4, 1949) is a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and film actress headlining films like 1979's Slow Dancing in the Big City as a dancer with a crippling disease, a film directed by Rocky director John G. Avildsen and co-starring Paul Sorvino.
Oct 7, 2010 · Hot off the success of "Rocky" Director John Avildsen ("The Karate Kid"), directed this romance about a ballerina (Anne Ditchburn). who falls for a newspaper...
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The columnist is played by Paul Sorvino, an enormously appealing actor who looks big enough and talks tough enough to really be able to sell tenderness. You've seen him before; he was in “Blood Brothers” and looks at home in any scene involving a corner saloon. The ballerina (Anne Ditchburn) moves in next door, having left her rich ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Paul Sorvino is terrific as a newsman who falls deeply in love with a ballerina (real life ballerina Anne Ditchburn). This rarely seen 1978 romantic tearjerker has a pretty good pedigree. It was directed by John Avildsen and is the follow up film made just after his Oscar winning film “Rocky”. The music by Bill Conti is outstanding.
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In Manhattan, columnist Lou Friedlander (Paul Sorvino) experiences love at first sight when he sets his eyes upon a new tenant in his apartment building: Sarah Gantz (Anne Ditchburn), a ballerina ...
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