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Movie Info. 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 ...
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.
- $2.5 million
- Lloyd Kaufman
Feb 1, 2023. Rated: 3.5/5 • Sep 22, 2022. Jul 7, 2022. After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low ...
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- Penny Marshall
- PG
- Tom Hanks
The IMDB logline is a hilariously blunt “an aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina”. The giggle-inducing original tagline is “Slow Dancing is Falling in Love” which – fair, but also suggests that the title is a metaphor when truly it isn’t, they do slow dance and that city sure is big.
- John G. Avildsen
- United Artists
Brief Synopsis. Read More. Ballerina Sarah Gantz moves into a New York apartment after breaking up with her boyfriend and her new neighbor, newspaper columnist Lou Friedlander, is instantly attracted to her. When Sarah learns that she is terminally ill, she goes against her doctor's advice to stop dancing and continues with her career.
Sep 10, 2012 · Which is why this one is, in the end, a failure, with its socially conscientious plot too episodic, and its kids (as always) too cute by half. Audiences will simply go to town on the finale: the ...
