
A director is casting dancers for a large production. Large numbers of hopefulls audition, hoping to be selected. Throughout the day, more and more people are eliminated, and the competition gets harder. Eventually, approximately a dozen dancers must compete for a few spots, each hoping to impress the director with their dancing skill. But, is this really what the director is looking for?... (Full plot summary below)
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A director is casting dancers for a large production. Large numbers of hopefulls audition, hoping to be selected. Throughout the day, more and more people are eliminated, and the competition gets harder. Eventually, approximately a dozen dancers must compete for a few spots, each hoping to impress the director with their dancing skill. But, is this really what the director is looking for?
Leave your thoughts about A Chorus Line.
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyMisconceived and poorly executed by director Richard (Gandhi) Attenborough, who turns the Broadway smash hit musical into a total bore. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanford"astonishingly, it throws out just about everything that made the show a classic" |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is one of the most intelligent and compelling movie musicals in a long time - and the most grown up. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChorus often seems static and confined, rarely venturing beyond the immediate. Attenborough merely films the stage show as best he could. |
| Movie MetropolisJames Plath'A Chorus Line' will certainly give people who think they want a career in dance some idea of whether they're up to the challenge. And the rest of the audience will never look at a musical chorus line the same way. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrRichard Attenborough's direction achieves that balance of impersonality and brisk pacing we've come to recognize as "professionalism," and he doesn't clog up the dancing with too many stylistic gimmicks. |
| 7M PicturesKevin Carrprobably worked much better as a live production |
| San Francisco ChronicleGerald NachmanThe film, though, lies dormant in its own decency. |
| Common Sense MediaS. Jhoanna RobledoSexy Broadway classic gets disappointing 1980s remake. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonThe stagebound setting gets boring; the action doesn't build a steady momentum; and the characters do far too much hanging around until the camera's ready to point at them again. |