Yellow | Roselyn Sanchez, Bill Duke | A Wonderful Feel Good Movie

Yellow | Roselyn Sanchez, Bill Duke | Yellow

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Yellow

	Yellow Roselyn Sanchez, Bill Duke Sony Pictures, 2007 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2 TV s Without a Trace ) and D.B. Sweeney (The Cutting Edge) star in this romantic drama about a young dancer who travels from her native Puerto Rico to the Big Apple in search of a new life after the death of her crippled father once a great ballet star in New York City. Upon her arrival in New York with no job and nowhere to live Amaryllis (Sanchez) turns to working in a strip club to make ends meet. Amaryllis quickly creates a new family in New York by befriending an older man in her building a washed-out poetry professor named Miles Emory as well as her co-workers at the strip club. Increasingly desperate Amaryllis seriously injures herself during a performance one night at the club only to be saved by Christian (Sweeney) a doctor in the audience. Miles poem Yellow inspires Amaryllis to seek a Broadway dancing job and her emotional connection to Miles helps to give him a reason for living that eluded her father. As Amaryllis relationship with Christian turns into a love affair she must make a choice between the security of his love and following her dream.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396183018 Manufacturer No: 18301

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A Wonderful Feel Good Movie

This movie starts out in Puerto Rico with the actors speaking Spanish (with subtitles). It lasted about ten or fifteen minutes, the Spanish, so I was beginning to think the whole movie was going to be that way, but by then I was into it and prepared to read along. Then, when Amaryllis (played by Roselyn Sanchez) moves to New York, everybody started speaking English. That worked well.

Amaryllis leaves Puerto Rico after her father's death to pursue her dream to become a dancer, but instead winds up working as a stripper. She thought she'd be moving in with a friend of her cousin's, but instead winds up living next door an aging poet who seems to have mental problems. Things don't seem to be going so well for Amaryllis, but she makes the most of what she has and eventually triumphs. But now that she's poised to become a star, will she reach for the brass ring?

I cannot tell you how much I liked this movie. Sanchez was nothing short of brilliant. She had me right from the get go and held on through the whole film. I was a bit down in the dumps when I put the CD in my player, but when the movie was over I was feeling pretty darned good about the film, about myself as well.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

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Yellow

I really enjoyed 'Yellow' it has a great story line, super soundtrack, and a very interesting cast of characters!

Sanchez Shines in Predictable Story...

Actress Roselyn Sanchez (best known as FBI agent Elena Delgado on "Without a Trace"), began her career as a dancer, and as the producer/star of "Yellow", her acting and dancing skills lifts a somewhat routine plotline into an entertaining celebration of a multi-talented performer.

Daughter of an invalid ex-dancer/teacher, young Amaryllis Campos (Sanchez) has had to curtail a promising dancing career to support her parents and drug-dealing boyfriend as a pizza delivery girl in San Juan. When her father commits suicide, she takes a friend's advice and moves to New York City, where she befriends a mentally-ill poet (Bill Duke, who is excellent), and ends up becoming a stripper, until she can break into the 'legitimate' dance world. As she waits for her break, a patron (D.B. Sweeney) falls for her...but will she sacrifice her dream, yet again, to move to Australia with him?

If this sounds like soap opera, it is, but Sanchez's intensity and likable persona keeps things interesting, if reminiscent of "Flashdance" and "Striptease". Unlike the Demi Moore film, however, titillation is not the major goal of "Yellow"; there is surprisingly little nudity (Sanchez only has one very brief nude scene, early in the film); what the film focuses on is her discipline and skill as a dancer, which is considerable!

The major pluses of the film (besides her dancing) are some truly beautiful views of Puerto Rico (which far outshines NYC in the film), and Duke's shaded performance, in support. Best of all, the DVD offers many deleted and longer versions of scenes, and a terrific interview with Sanchez, who discusses her long effort to bring "Yellow" to the screen.

"Yellow" is certainly no classic, but if you enjoy dancing, or are a Roselyn Sanchez fan, you will be pleased!

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A stripper's ballet

This is a story about a young woman (Roselyn Sanchez) who moves from her native Puerto Rico to the Big Apple in hopes of becoming a dancer. She was trained in ballet by her late father & wants to preserve his heritage by becoming a great dancer in her own right.

Along the way, however, reality sets in. She needs to do something to support herself and she's unable to secure a job that pays more than minimum wage. She lucks out by running into a friend (Billy Duke) who gives her a place to stay & acts somewhat like a father figure. However, the ways in which he can help her are limited.

Eventually, when she hits rock-bottom, she is forced to consider being a stripper so that she can continue to pursue her dream of being a real professional dancer. Now, at this point many will be inclined to say that a ballet dancer being a stripper would be like a concert pianist being relegated to playing the piano for a truck stop. Well, yes & no. The problem with this sort of analogy is that I've seen some exotic dancers in my time who were VERY impressive acrobats.

In spite of the plot line, there is surprisingly little nudity in this film; we get just a few quick flashes of Sanchez in the buff. For me, that was quite disappointing. Still, as a movie it's far, far superior to other stripper movies such as Striptease and Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Somewhat surprisingly, the story doesn't even really portray exotic dancing as a sordid lifestyle. In fact, the other strippers and even the nice-guy manager support Sanchez' character in her quest for greater things.

If you are at all into dancing, this film is a must. Sanchez is a phenomonal dancer and she does several different styles in the film, from ballet to jazz dancing to pole dancing. In spite of its content it is, as another reviewer remarked, a "feel good" kind of story. Ultimately, it's not about working from being a stripper to a bona-fide dancer so much as it is about never letting go of your dreams.

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