Bravetown
Josh is a teenager DJ living in New York but has to move to North Dakota to reside with his alienated father because of a court order. For a very long time he feels that he doesn’t fit in until a dance teams asks his assistance so they can get ready for a state competition.
20 January 1990, Whittier, California, USA
10 August 1990, Fort Hood, Texas, USA
14 November 1972, Minot, North Dakota, USA
May 13, 2015
The film turns so overtly melodramatic during its third act that it volleys between a Nicholas Sparks film and Tropic Thunder.
May 08, 2015
Heartfelt but uneven, edgy tale of city teen in small town.
May 07, 2015
There is nothing brave about "Bravetown," a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
May 07, 2015
If only salutary intentions and one good performance could save a film so fundamentally wrongly conceived.
May 06, 2015
This isn't "Bravetown." It's Crazytown.
May 07, 2015
First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
May 05, 2015
Satisfies mainly due to its affecting ensemble and considerable emotional intelligence.
May 07, 2015
I would call the movie a trainwreck, except it's really four or five separate trainwrecks.
May 08, 2015
While it hints at something deeper, this slick coming-of-age drama about redemption and reconciliation instead chooses a more formulaic path to catharsis.
May 07, 2015
From a desperate, Nicholas Spark-wannabe script by Oscar Orlando Torres, director Daniel Duran has fashioned a movie we have all seen before. Many times.
May 07, 2015
Excruciating ... an unwieldy hybrid of high school dance competition movie and shameless flag-waver.
May 07, 2015
A weird combination of saccharine drama with "Footloose," deadly earnest but utterly incredible, the good intentions overwhelmed by silly theatrics.
