If only all professional comebacks could be so sweet. Netflix wants to get your household dancing with the new dance comedy, Feel the Beat, which looks a little bit Sweet Home Alabama, a little bit Mighty Ducks, a little bit Step Up? Any of ’em. It’s an underdog story you can dance to.
Feel the Beat stars Sofia Carson, best-known for her role in Disney Channel’s Descendants, as April, a selfish Broadway dancer who blows her big shot, and goes crawling back home to her small Wisconsin hometown. And guess what? That’s where her old teacher is training a misfit group of young dancers and April would be a big help. Know what else? April may not have wanted this job, but she’s going to learn just as much from these kids as they will from her. Awwww, shucks. Also, her ex-flame is in town, so….sparks?
They call it a “formula” for a reason. People like this kind of stuff, especially now when we’re all cooped up indoors looking for something fun to take our minds off the world. Feel the Beat also stars Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s Donna Lynne Champlin, Wolfgang Novogratz (The Half of It), Rex Lee, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Lidya Jewett, Sadie Lapidus, Johanna Colón, Shaylee Mansfield, Shiloh Nelson, Justin Allan, Carina Battrick, Kai Zen, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Dennis Andres, and Veronica Mars‘ Enrico Colantoni as, guess what, the encouraging father. The film is directed by Elissa Down, an Australian filmmaker who made a splash back in 2008 with her semi-autobiographical The Black Balloon.
Feel the Beat hits Netflix on June 19th.
