Shall We Dance?

This romantic comedy is at times both pleasant and repellant | Andrew Coffin

Shall We Dance? is a wildly uneven romantic comedy that is in turns pleasant, repellent, and almost profound. The film (rated PG-13 for some sexual references and brief language) is a remake of a 1996 Japanese film of the same name.

Richard Gere plays John Clark, a bored Chicago attorney. He has a successful career, a nice home, a loving family (including wife Susan Sarandon) . . . but John drones on, day after day, without desire or vigor.

On his daily train ride home from work, John notices a beautiful woman staring out of the second-story window of a dance studio. She's there every night, a melancholy look immobilizing her face. One evening, John decides to jump off of the train and climb up to the studio. He's clearly interested in the sad Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) but is pressured into signing up for dance lessons while he's there.

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October 16, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 40

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