Worse than having your glove stolen, worse than Chinese water torture, even worse than the earth spinning off its axis and careening into Mars, your mom enrolls you in Marilyn Hotchkiss' program. Not only do we have to wear a tie and jacket, but you have to be polite... and dance... with girls! What Steve and Peter didn't know was that this was to become the biggest day in their lives, because, for the first time, they were about to like girls...
Acting
Elden Henson's perfect deadpan dread as Steve.
Costume
The tiny ties and jackets — miniature formalwear as child torture.
Director
Randall Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short film was expanded into a 2005 feature starring Robert Carlyle and Marisa Tomei, keeping the same director but aging the story into grief and ballroom dancing as healing.
The 1990 original captures peak 'boys will be boys' anxiety before the 90s boy band era made dancing cool again — a narrow window of maximal awkwardness.
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