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Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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Though she's a talented gymnast, Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) has always followed the orders of her strict Army colonel father and stayed out of the spotlight. However, when she moves to a new town and meets the carefree Lynne (Helen Hunt), she disobeys her father for the first time in her life. With Lynne's encouragement, Janey enters a TV dance competition -- and soon finds herself with both a cute dance partner and an archrival who is dead set on getting Janey eliminated from the contest.
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Almar Haflidason BBC.com Rated: 3/5 Apr 18, 2001 Full Review Rachel Wagner Hallmarkies Podcast Got to love these silly dance movies from the 80s Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …(a) wonky pop-culture time-capsule… Rated: 2/5 May 8, 2022 Full Review Heather Boerner Common Sense Media Dance to the cheesy '80s beat with tweens and up. Rated: 3/5 Dec 18, 2010 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed We all know a movie like this isn't appealing to anyone beside the folks who grew up during that time. And even they will be compelled to cringe at its mention... Rated: 1/4 May 14, 2008 Full Review David Cornelius DVDTalk.com It's a total wannabe in the realm of 80s teen flicks. Rated: 1/5 May 6, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C Funny in 1 hour and 27 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/20/25 Full Review Audience Member Notice how all the bad reviews are by dudes. "I'm too cool to like a fun movie". Blah. It's a fun 80s flick. If you want a not fun movie, go watch House of Sand and Fog. Let the rest of us who can still feel joy do so. 🤪 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/03/25 Full Review Michael C It was terrible Muriel. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Thomas D It's Hairspray without the wit. It's Dirty Dancing without the charisma. It's every 80s coming off age film without the script or acting. I was truly bored the entire time and cared very little for any of the characters. Helen Hunt was the only glimmer of talent, but her "character arc" is dull and unbelievable; they hold multiple auditions for dancers in a crowd, but a 16 year old girl strolls on stage in a chariot and just makes herself Miss Dance TV? Okay. For a dance movie, the dance and rehearsal scenes did very little to inspire me. It was more like a Midwest aerobics class than a dance hall. But that's the 80s for ya. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/24/24 Full Review Dinos K The song was good, the movie not Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Audience Member See how "Carrie" got her start by being the most untalented dancer to ever make it big! This is a "dancing in front of your mirror singing into your hairbrush" type fantasy film, which even as a little girl I watched it and thought "This is the best you can do to waste my time for me?". Helen Hunt and crew are so squeaky and adorably young, you might get a kick out of this old time capsule with bad 80s dance moves. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Alan Metter

Director

Sarah Jessica Parker

Janey Glenn

Helen Hunt

Lynne Stone

Lee Montgomery

Jeff Malene

Morgan Woodward

J.P. Sands

Jonathan Silverman

Drew Boreman

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Synopsis Though she's a talented gymnast, Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) has always followed the orders of her strict Army colonel father and stayed out of the spotlight. However, when she moves to a new town and meets the carefree Lynne (Helen Hunt), she disobeys her father for the first time in her life. With Lynne's encouragement, Janey enters a TV dance competition -- and soon finds herself with both a cute dance partner and an archrival who is dead set on getting Janey eliminated from the contest.
Director
Alan Metter
Producer
Chuck Russell
Screenwriter
Amy Spies
Production Co
New World Pictures, Brooksfilms
Rating
PG
Genre
Musical, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 27, 2011
Runtime
1h 27m
Sound Mix
Surround
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