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Tap

1989, Movie, PG-13, 110 mins

Tap: Review

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TAP is the first film to attempt not only to update tap dancing from the days of Bill Robinson, Fred Astaire, and Gene Kelly, but also to consider the darker side of this truly American art form. After doing time in Sing-Sing for burglary, Max Washington (Gregory Hines), the son of a legendary hoofer, returns to his late father's seedy Harlem dance studio, where he encounters his father's best friend, the ailing Little Mo (Sammy Davis). Haunted by memories of his youth as a tap-dancing child prodigy, Max tries to rekindle his relationship with Mo's beautiful daughter, Amy (Suzzanne Douglas), and her 14-year-old son, Louis (Savion Glover), and makes attempt to return to dancing. But before he helps Mo realize his dream of combining rock and tap, Max first has to decide whether to carry out a burglary with his old partner (Joe Morton). Although too subdued in mood at times (TAP has a tendency to remain earthbound when it should soar), and despite some obvious plot contrivances, the picture still manages to be a very special one--thanks largely to the wonderful hoofing by Hines and veteran tappers Sandman Sims, Bunny Briggs, Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde, Pat Rico, Arthur Duncan and Harold Nicholas (of the Nicholas Brothers). Musical selections include: "Forget the Girl" (Everton DeLuke McCalla, Jeffrey Calvert, performed by Tony Terry), "Can't Escape the Rhythm" (James Newton Howard, Glen Ballard, performed by Gregory Hines), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh, performed by Bunny Briggs), "Stormy Monday" (Aaron T. Walker, performed by T. Bone Walker), "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin). leave a comment
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