Mad About Mambo

Combine a heartwarming story about two kids determined to win the big dance competition with one about an amateur soccer player determined to make it to the pros. Throw in a dollop of snotty private school brats vs. scrappy public high schoolers, add a hint of the Troubles and you have this cheerful Irish picture, which hardly seems big enough to hold all its disparate elements. Lucy McLoughlin (Keri Russell, of TV's Felicity) is part of Belfast's elite: Her father (Brian Cox) owns a hugely profitable chain of do-it-yourself home improvement stores, she attends a tony prep school and has a handsome, wealthy boyfriend (Theo Fraser Steele). Danny Mitchell (Wil...