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www.mith2.umd.edu - : This weekend I recommend stepping out. That's both what I think you should do and what I think you should see. The film, ''Stepping Out,'' which opened yesterday at the Movies at Largo is an utter delight--a kind of a cross between ''Strangers in Good Company'' and ''Chorus Line'' if you can imagine that--that will have you leaving the theater smiling and crying and laughing and tapping your toes. It was directed by Englishman Lewis Gilbert, the same person who directed Shirley Valentine a couple of years ago and ''Educating Rita'' a couple of decades ago--so he already has a great track record of making positive films about women and this film adds to it immeasurably. Great cinema it probably isn't, but it's a ''little film'' that has a big heart, a dynamite cast, and a loving attitude toward the 8 women and one man who are its focus. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Stepping Out'' is an amateur night version of ''Chorus Line,'' in which the members of a tap dance class face their individual problems and tell their own stories, while rehearsing for the big production number that will inevitably end the movie. Room is made for a couple of production numbers featuring the star, Liza Minnelli, and they're so good they left me wishing for more Liza and fewer problems in the chorus. more...
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