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The Red Sneakers (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Gregory Hines

Written By:
Jeffrey Rubin
Mark Saltzman

Actors:
Vanessa Bell Calloway ..... Berniece
Dempsey Pappion ..... Reggie
Ruben Santiago-Hudson ..... Uncle Joe
Scott Thompson ..... Aldo
Philip Akin ..... Mr. Seabrooke
K.C. Collins ..... Roscoe
Kendra FitzRandolph ..... Courtney
Cabral Richards ..... Khalil
Vincent D'Onofrio ..... Mercado
Gregory Hines ..... Zeke
Sarah Barrable-Tishauer ..... Larosa
Jordan Walker ..... Noah Greggory
Drew Nelson ..... Jacob
Neil Crone ..... Coach Blake
Reuben Thompson ..... Alvin Duke

Synopsis:

A kid named Reggie Reynolds is a high school student who is good in the classroom but not so good on the basketball court. But one day he meets a junk dealer who gives him a pair of old gym shoes that once were worn by an all-star in the Negro Basketball leagues in the 1930's. Reggie puts the red sneakers on and he is immediately playing like a superstar on the basketball court. He gets the attention of a major shoe company executive who wants Reggie to switch from the old red sneakers that he is wearing to his company's brand. But Reggie knows if he's not wearing those magical old red sneakers he is back on the sideline.

Gregory Hines plays the ex-convict son of a famed tap-dancer. Taking over his late father's Harlem dance studio, Hines can't shake memories of his childhood, when he was being touted as a dancing prodigy. Challenged to fulfill his destiny by his dad's old cronies--among them such terpsichorean giants as Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Harold Nicholas--Hines does his best to avoid lapsing back into a life of crime. The struggle to save Hines' soul is a titanic one, with Hines' girlfriend Suzzanne Douglas tugging at him from one direction and his old burglary partner Joe Morton yanking from the other. The plotline of Tap is merely an excuse to show off some of the most dazzling footwork ever recorded on film. The director is Nick Castle Jr., who like star Gregory Hines is scion of a legendary dancing family.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 18 April, 2010.