Fresh
You yield to The Turning Point relucantly, knowing well that it is conning you -- with sentiment, with flamboyance, with sheer slickness.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
The Turning Point
The generations change. But the choices remain the same.
1977 · 1h 59m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Herbert Ross
Overview
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.
Director and cast
- Herbert Ross Director
- Anne Bancroft as Emma Jacklin
- Shirley MacLaine as Deedee
- Leslie Browne as Emilia Rodgers
- Tom Skerritt as Wayne
- Mikhail Baryshnikov as Yuri Kopeikine
- Martha Scott as Adelaide
- Antoinette Sibley as Sevilla Haslam
- Alexandra Danilova as Madame Dahkarova
- Starr Danias as Carolyn
- Marshall Thompson as Carter
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
For a film ostensibly dedicated to physical grace, Ross's images are unforgivably clumsy.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The Turning Point is one of the best films of its era.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
The Turning Point is entertaining, not for discovering new material, but for treating old material with style and romantic feeling that, in this day and age, seem remarkably unafraid.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
There's some beautiful dancing and a wealth of detail about the world of classical ballet.
Time Out
More films
Billy Elliot (2000)
Comedy · Drama · Music · R
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that h...
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Cast
- Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters
IMDb
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
74
The Deep End (2001)
Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · R
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect ...
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Scott McGehee, David Siegel
- Cast
- Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker
IMDb
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Metacritic
78
Aria (1987)
Comedy · Drama · Music · R
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Beresford
- Cast
- John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Sophie Ward
IMDb
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes
57%
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Drama · Romance · PG
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a p...
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Cast
- Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo
IMDb
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes
55%
Metacritic
55
Black Swan (2010)
Drama · Horror · Thriller · R
The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with dance. Nina lives with her retired ballerina mother who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When the artistic director decides to replace the prima ballerina for the opening production of their new season, Nina is his ...
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Director
- Darren Aronofsky
- Cast
- Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
IMDb
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
79
The Lorax (2012)
Animation · Family · PG
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Director
- Kyle Balda, Chris Renaud
- Cast
- Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Ed Helms
IMDb
6.4
Metacritic
46
Banana (2010)
Animation · Comedy · Family · N/A
The Minions fight over a delicious banana... but is that all they want?!
- Runtime
- 4m
- Director
- Kyle Balda, Samuel Tourneux
- Cast
- Pierre Coffin
IMDb
7.6
Home Makeover (2010)
Animation · Comedy · Family · N/A
When a social worker visits Gru’s house to assess its suitability for children, chaos ensues. Margo, Edith, and Agnes, along with the ever-mischievous Minions, scramble to give the home a makeover in record time. Their attempts to create a warm and inviting environment quickly spiral into hilarity as the Minions’ unorthodox methods lea...
- Runtime
- 5m
- Director
- Kyle Balda, Samuel Tourneux
- Cast
- Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Kate Fisher
IMDb
7.1
Orientation Day (2010)
Animation · Comedy · Family · N/A
The Minions embark on their first day of work, eager to prove themselves in their new roles. After watching a hilariously outdated 'Initiation Video,' three rookie Minions take on bomb-carrying duty. Predictably, their enthusiasm quickly spirals into chaos as they bungle the simplest of tasks. Packed with slapstick comedy and the Minio...
- Runtime
- 4m
- Director
- Kyle Balda, Samuel Tourneux
- Cast
- Pierre Coffin, Rob Huebel
IMDb
6.8
Gru, mi villano favorito presenta: La locura de los minions (2010)
Animation · Comedy
Comments
Talk about the film with other members