![]() Bonilla as a pair of unlikely lovers in contemporary New York who must face a number of challenges, both separately and together, before finding one another–and themselves. A unique blend of dance, drama, and romance, the film stars newcomers Leah Pipes and E.J. NEW YORK, NY – November 18, 2011 – MUSICAL CHAIRS, the latest film by renowned director Susan Seidelman, will be released by Paladin, it was announced by company President, Mark Urman. Mark Urman, a staple of independent cinema, really ‘gets it,’ and we’re thrilled to be working with him to reach the widest possible audience.” She has a real talent for embracing people in all their diversity and making them real, believable, and acceptable.” Fellow producer Joey Dedio, (who also co-stars in the film as Armando’s feckless uncle), says, “Paladin is the perfect home for this special film. About the film, which features both disabled and able-bodied performers in its rousing dance scenes, Carrus says,“Susan has succeeded in conveying the struggles we all face, both able-bodied and disabled, making our way, whether through life or on the dance floor. It was producer Janet Carrus, long active in charities benefitting the disabled, and herself an ardent ballroom dance enthusiast, who first had the idea of building a film around the phenomenon of wheelchair ballroom dancing, an activity long popular in Europe and Asia, but which is only now developing a wider following in the United States. I wanted to capture the energy and contrast that makes New York City such an interesting place to live and work.” ![]() About MUSICAL CHAIRS she says, “What appealed to me so much about this project was the diversity of the characters: culturally, physically, and gender-wise. Right,” “Cookie,”and “She Devil,” as well as the pilot for the HBO series “Sex And The City” - but it was her earlier “outsider” films, “Smithereens,” (the first American independent film to be shown in competition at Cannes), and “Desperately Seeking Susan,” that propelled her to the forefront of her generation of filmmakers. Seidelman, whose most recent feature was the indie hit, “Boynton Beach Club,” has numerous studio titles to her credit, including “Making Mr. Her customary blend of wit and warmth is evident in every frame. As in all her best work, Susan has put seemingly marginal characters front and center in her film, and shows us not what makes them different, but what makes them just like us. The prize is irrelevant what they really stand to win back is their zest for life.Ībout the film Urman says, “everything about MUSICAL CHAIRS is a happy surprise except, of course, the excellence of the filmmaking. ![]() But, with the help of several other patients at the rehab center, Armando organizes an intense training program that will bring them all center stage and in the spotlight. At first she is reluctant–wheelchair dancing, though highly popular overseas, is something she never even knew existed. ![]() Fortunately, Armando has enough dreams for both of them and, when he hears about a wheelchair ballroom dance competition that will soon be held in NY, he sees a way to return something to Mia that she thinks is lost forever. Though worlds apart, their shared passion for dance promises to bring them together until a tragic accident changes Mia’s life forever, and she finds herself wheelchair-bound at a rehab facility, with her dreams of a dance career shattered. Hired by a giant technology company to “humanize” their latest invention-an android-astronaut named Ulysses (Malkovich)-she is shocked to discover that her new client embodies all the qualities she’s ever wanted in a man! When they begin to fall for one another, will their robotic romance blast into the stratosphere…or blow a circuit and crash? Shot by ace cinematographer Ed Lachman (Far from Heaven) with sidesplitting performances by Ben Masters (Dream Lover), Glenne Headly (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Polly Bergen (Cry-Baby) and Hart Bochner (Die Hard), Making Mr.Set against the exciting backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, MUSICAL CHAIRS is about Armando (Bonilla) a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia (Pipes), an Upper East Side princess who is the studio’s star performer. Savvy and beautiful PR executive Frankie Stone (Magnuson) has her work cut out for her. What do you do when you’ve fallen hard…for a man who’s hard-wired? John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire) and Ann Magnuson (Love at Large) star in this fresh, fast and funny film from acclaimed director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan).
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