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| Make It Happen |
Make It Happen is a 2008 dance film directed by Darren Grant and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The screenplay was co-written by Duane Adler, who was a screenwriter for Save the Last Dance and Step Up, films that also involved dancing.
Plot
The movie opens in Glenwood, Indiana, where Lauryn Kirk (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) narrates the first few parts. There are no dance schools in Glenwood and Lauryn says goodbye to her brother, Joel (John Reardon) before departing for Chicago to audition for a famous dance school, the fictional Chicago School of Music and Dance. Although Joel, who works as a mechanic
in the family garage, is wary of Lauryn's decision to enroll, he
eventually gives her his blessing. When Lauryn enters the stage,
however, her dance (mostly a hip hop
routine) was halted by the judge, who hostilely rejects her, saying
that they need to see something more "sensual and feminine".
Dejected, Lauryn goes to a diner to down her sorrows, but soon finds her car towed off. Upon seeing her misfortunes, Dana (Tessa Thompson),
a friendly waitress from the diner invites Lauryn to her apartment and
out of the pouring rain. Dana subsequently offers Lauryn a place to
stay, considering Lauryn could not go back home and face her brother.
The next day, Dana brings Lauryn to a club called Ruby's (whose dances are rooted in burlesque), where she meets with Russ (Riley Smith), the slick-talking disc jockey, and Brenda (Karen LeBlanc), the club owner. Brenda hires Lauryn as a bookkeeper, in light of her skills with numbers. Lauryn watches as a dancer, Carmen (Julissa Bermudez) performs impressively on the stage.
Before locking up late one night, Lauryn goes on the stage and
silently and elegantly dances, while unbeknownest to her, Russ watches
from a distance. The next night, Brenda finds herself short of dancers.
Russ asks Lauryn to dance, after having seen her graceful performance
the previous night. Lauryn reluctantly agrees, and goes on stage. At
first, new to the sexy routine, Lauryn looks foolish, but when Russ
starts playing hip-hop music, Lauryn does a sexy hip-hop routine, and
finds herself to be Ruby's new star. As Lauryn and Russ' relationship
progresses, Lauryn continues performing stunningly on stage, much to
Carmen's chagrin.
One night however, Joel catches Lauryn at the club during a dance;
After a bicker, in which Lauryn realizes that Joel is losing the family
garage due to stacking mortgages and bills, she decides to ditch the
stage and return to Indiana to save the garage. Soon after though, Joel
catches a peek of Lauryn joyfully dancing in the garage one day, and
asks Lauryn to give the audition another shot. Uplifted, Lauryn returns
to Chicago for a second audition. She nails it, and happily embraces
Russ, who has come to encourage her. Lauryn goes back to Ruby's to
apologize to Brenda, but finds a surprise congratulatory party awaiting
for her. The movie concludes as the party breaks into a dance.
Cast
| Actor | Role | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Lauryn Kirk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Riley Smith | Russ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tessa Thompson | Dana | ||||||||||||||||||
| Julissa Bermudez | Carmen | ||||||||||||||||||
| John Reardon | Joel Kirk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Karen LeBlanc | Brenda | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ashley Roberts | Brooke | ||||||||||||||||||
| Matt Kippen | Wayne |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_It_Happen_%28film%29
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