Make It Happen
A small-town girl hopes to build a career as a respected dancer but instead ends up working at a burlesque club to pay the bills and support herself. Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
23 November 1981, Winnipeg, Canada
September 28, 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
30 July 1975, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
28 September 1983, Dominican Republic
3 October 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 October 1986, Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
8 March 1968
16 February 1966, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
12 April 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
14 September 1981, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
August 08, 2008
The film should have been called Rehash Dance, because it is Flashdance without any new ideas.August 08, 2008
It's all just filler between the dance scenes, which are admittedly fun. Think Pussycat Dolls with slightly more clothes on. Unrepentantly formulaic, but enjoyable all the same.August 08, 2008
This awesomely unambitious film has all the depth of a Pepsi ad.August 08, 2008
So predictable that you know exactly what's going to happen at any given minute.December 20, 2008
We know the trajectory, it's a question of how brightly the rocket burns and how interested we are in the astronauts aboard this dance missile from small town Indiana to Chicago Big Time Dance SchoolSeptember 05, 2008
It's hard to dislike all these urban musicals aimed at teenage girls, and even harder to tell them apart.September 05, 2008
This film's limp retelling of the against-all-odds cliche just doesn't bump, grind or sweat enough to make it happen.April 08, 2011
Another dance movie this year? Seriously, where the heck do they keep coming from?August 08, 2008
Then you wait for the moment one of the regular girls gets injured, the hostess has to find a replacement and... the rest you know.January 20, 2009
...yet another tedious inspirational tale revolving around a would-be dancer's efforts at transcending her wrong-side-of-the-tracks upbringing to become a professional hoofer.September 05, 2008
Mary Elizabeth Winstead [has] star quality.August 08, 2008
Despite boundless energy and some surprisingly artful photography, 'Make it Happen' is never more than product. Cheap, abysmally scripted and utterly soulless.