A telegraphed musical romance clean enough and sweatless enough for the Lifetime Channel. Maybe also the Hallmark Channel. A slim, pretty, blond schoolteacher, saddled with a preoccupied, stocky, bald fiancé, finds a new love and a true lover when a hearing-impaired swing dancer visits the school for a motivational speech. Amy Smart looks as if she could have gone far on a season of Dancing with the Stars, but she hardly looks ready after a few weeks’ practice to contend for the national championship in West Coast Swing. Neither does her smooth but almost slow-motion partner, Tom Malloy, although the actor’s bio claims he’s a competitive ballroom dancer. The actor, in any event, is additionally the scriptwriter, so if he says they’re in the running, well, then, they’re in the running. The director, Robert Iscove, is not sufficiently clever to cover for them. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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