The Witches Mountain
1975
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That's OK with me. “Slow Dancing in the Big City” cheerfully exists in the world of big hearts and brave tears and happy endings that make you blow your nose. It's a classic of melodramatic overachievement. Advertisement. It involves a love story, of course. The guy is a hard-bitten New York newspaper columnist with a heart of gold, and the ...
Slow Dancing in the Big City. 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 ...
- John G. Avildsen
- Paul Sorvino
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
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Marina Hirsch Berkeley Barb. Grant finds the heights of romance in slum living, investigative reporting and stricken ballerinas. Her movie's title ...
Dec 31, 2021 · An earlier title that she co-starred in is the little seen but interesting Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978), a leisurely romantic drama starring Paul Sorvino. The film was directed by the late John Avildsen and was his follow-up to his 1976 surprise smash hit Rocky which starred Sylvester Stallone and won the 1977 Oscar for Best Picture.
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.
But the concept just curls up and suffers a slow death in this badly written, badly directed and badly acted film. There is no chemistry at all between Sorvino and Ditchburn. He really does seem to old for her and the contrast between her tiny, fit body and his big paunchy one is just awkward and even grotesque.
