Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The forbidden dance is Lambada [videorecording] / 21st Century Film Corporation and Menahem Golan present a Greydon Clark film ; screenplay by Roy Langsdon & John Platt ; produced by Marc S. Fischer and Richard L. Albert ; directed by Greydon Clark.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, c2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Nisa, a beautiful princess from Brazil, is concerned over the destruction of her homeland and the rainforests by a giant, multinational corporation and travels to Los Angeles to meet with the company's chairman. She is prevented from arranging a meeting so she accepts a job as a maid to make ends meet while she's in America. She falls in love with Jason, the handsome son of her employer, and teaches him the passionate and erotic dance of her home-- Lambada. Together they decide the only way to deliver the message to the American people is to enter a Lambada dance contest. But, Jason's ex-girlfriend wants to prevent it, the corporation wants to prevent it-- and both are willing to stop at nothing to keep them off the dance floor.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13.

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Lambada (Dance) -- Drama.

Contests -- Drama.

Rain forest conservation -- Drama.

Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Drama.

Relaciones hombre-mujer -- Teatro.

Danza -- Teatro.

Feature films.

Melodrama.