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The Forbidden Dance

Play trailer Poster for The Forbidden Dance PG-13,  1990,  1h 37m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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25% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
An Amazon princess (Laura Herring) goes to Los Angeles and tries to save her rain forest by doing the lambada.
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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011
F
Its PG-13 version of a Hollywood-vice plot is so inept it puts you in a stupor. Go to Full Review
Jon Pareles New York Times Aug 30, 2004
Its dance sequences are barely sexier than a bowling tournament. But connoisseurs of clunky dialogue and shameless continuity lapses should look no further. Go to Full Review
Rita Kempley Washington Post Jan 1, 2000
Herring, a former Miss USA, must not have danced for her talent portion of the competition. Go to Full Review
TV Guide Apr 6, 2015
2.5/5
The story relies on one absurd coincidence after another, the acting is pedestrian, and the screenplay is often unintentionally laughable. However, although overlong, the film is consistently entertaining. Go to Full Review
David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Dec 16, 2014
0.5/4
A film that defies all sense of merit by intercutting an endless array of pelvis gyrations and Latin-inspired grooves with a tone so inconsistent and downtrodden that it left me wincing in discomfort. Go to Full Review
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Nov 7, 2014
1/10
A deadly combination of inept political cartooning and fatigued, dirt-poor filmmaking anti-skills. Go to Full Review
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Greydon Clark

Director

Laura Harring

Nisa

Jeff James

Jason

Barbra Brighton

Ashley

Miranda Garrison

Mickey

Sid Haig

Joa

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The Forbidden Dance

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Movie Info

Synopsis An Amazon princess (Laura Herring) goes to Los Angeles and tries to save her rain forest by doing the lambada.
Director
Greydon Clark
Producer
Richard L. Albert, Marc S. Fischer
Screenwriter
Menahem Golan, Roy Langsdon
Production Co
Sawmill Entertainment Corporation, 21st Century Film Corporation
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 21, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.4M
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Surround
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