Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives with her mother and bad step-father. Robin is accepted to the school athlethics team but is not accepted by some other girls, so she works out at a friends house. Eventually Robin and her team compete in the national scholastic meet.
Teenage Dream, Dream to Believe, Il sogno di Robin, Träume werden wahr, A megvalósult álom, 劃地彩虹, Volar, Let
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"I guess I'm just not pretty enough for you."
-22-year-old Keanu Reeves wearing pink florals
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Film #29 of the February Movie Challenge : Keanu Reeves or Bust!
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My mama used to say "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"
I bet that phrase never would have made it into her vocabulary if she had seen this train wreck of a film!
keanu in floral blazers, floral ties, floral shirts
🌺🌿🌸💐🍃🌼🌷
and then he has the audacity to say,
“oh i guess i’m just not pretty enough for you”
This is a low-key masterpiece, friends. I need you to all watch it.
So many things I love:
*Power of female friendship
*Thrift store shopping montages
*Menswear on women
*Keanu being supportive
*Bad dads not being forgiven
*Soundtracks that describe what is happening on screen as filtered through like maybe a Swedish songwriter mimicking English-language phrases
This movie has it all and so much more.
You know what they say, havin' a bunch of cheesy 80's montages is nine-tenths of the law. The other tenth is, uh, Olivia d'Abo working up a sweat? What can I say, I'm just *counts fingers* one man. Now how's about getting this a proper transfer, I watched a DVD version that's just a few tracking bars shy from being VHS quality. Especially the sound is pretty shoddy, which is a shame 'cause those tunes are embarrassingly catchy.
Olivia d'Abo stars as the bustiest gymnast ever allowed to compete on the circuit as she Flashdances her way to Keanu Reeves' heart in this underrated Canadian cheesefest. The montage per minute ratio is off the hook, it makes the same year's ROCKY IV feel like a Béla Tarr film. There are so many montages that there's even one of Keanu putting condiments on a hot dog. The music is delightful, one motivational pop song after another, marking the only composer credit for the legend behind the BREAKIN' movie soundtracks, Ollie E. Brown. Lensed like a hazy, neon dream (the copy I watched is titled DREAM TO BELIEVE), FLYING feels like a libido avalanche of tight bods, high stakes and…
Dream to Believe tells the story of Robin Crew, played by the almost unbearably adorable Olivia D’Abo.
One can’t help but fall in love immediately after meeting her due to her awkward running, which it’s later discovered is caused by a limp from a knee injury she suffered in a car accident that left her father dead. She now lives with her loving and caring mother, her abusive step-father, and her disinterested sister. She dreams of becoming a gymnast, but is no longer able due to her injury. Instead, she helps out around the gym, watching everyone else show their stuff, and pines after the hunky guy, even though the much dreamier Tommy (played by the incomparable Keanu Reeves) is…
Possibly the most montages ever committed to film!
When I first heard about the movie and saw the cast (Olivia d'Abo, a longtime crush, and Keanu Reeves, a super duper longtime crush), my hopes ramped up to 11 because there's no greater feeling than finding an obscure little gem and championing it. And I had those high hopes because sometimes the weird little film obviously inspired by a bigger cinematic success often has the freedom to be a better movie (Friday the 13th -> Sleepaway Camp, Bullitt -> The Driver, E.T. -> Explorers are some examples that I can get behind). But this is a pale imitation of Footloose in about every way imaginable.
This film rips wholesale from that one and improves on none of the things…
A perfect 10 of a film if there has ever been one! This desperately needs a restoration!
Holy moly! There's a scene where Keanu and the lead first kiss and it's all in silhouette and holy moly. I was screaming to no one! STEAMY!
There are so many montage sequences I totally lost count.
I honestly can't understand in what context this was exhibited. This surely did not come out in theaters, but there are tits and a "Fuck" so was it on TV? Cable? I will not research this because I've already forgotten it.
The most ridiculous thing about this film though was obviously that this gal had a crush on anyone other then Keanu at any point in the film. Totally unbelievable.
I love a movie that subverts expectations! Like for example, (look out, world, here come some spoilers!!) when Robin's mom dies after the announcement that Robin gets to compete in the big meet, (I actually don't remember if this was like a nationals competition? Or regionals? What do any of these terms mean? They were giving out gold medals if that means anything to anyone? I should have listened closer!!) I was like, ok here's the part where she shuts everyone out and tells her coach she can't go anymore and ignores her new boyfriend but NO I was wrong! Instead, she like has a nice time losing her virginity at Tommy's house (in his parents' bed I think which…
