How She Move
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
An aspiring medical student whose sister has recently died and who may be forced to relocate from a private school to the neighbourhood in which she was raised enters a step-dancing competition in hopes of securing the funds needed to continue her education. Unable to afford the tuition needed to fund her private-school education, ambitious teen Raya (Rutina Wesley) returns to her family home in the city while reluctantly forced to re-evaluate her future. Upon learning that the top prize for an upcoming step-dancing competition is $50,000, Raya uses her impressive moves to earn a coveted slot in her good friend Bishop’s (Dwain Murphy) predominately male JSJ crew. Isolated from the local females due to jealousy and separated from her fellow dancers by gender, the ambitious dancer is subsequently kicked-off the team for showing off during a preliminary competition. Now, if Raya has any hope of realizing her medical school dreams, she will have to either earn back Bishop’s trust or organize her own dance crew and start over from scratch.
Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a finance executive in desperate need of money, convinces his also strapped brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) to rob their parents’ jewelry store. Hank, in turn, hires an acquaintance, Bobby (Brian F. O’Byrne), to help him in the robbery, but the heist goes awry, as Bobby and the brothers’ mother Nanette (Rosemary Harris) fatally shoot each other. Hank has secretly been having an affair with Andy’s wife Gina (Marisa Tomei), while Andy is secretly a drug addict who embezzles to fund his lifestyle. Hank and Andy labor to try to get away with their botched crime, but ultimately their father Charles (Albert Finney) discovers their involvement and tracks them as they make their final desperate moves. In the end, after Andy is shot and Hank flees, Charles visits Andy in the hospital and uses a pillow to suffocate him.