Shall We Dance?

I have yet another reason why you should not buy pirated movies. A friend lent us a copy of "Shall We Dance?" A movie starring Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez and Susan Sarandon. As the tagline says, "A new comedy about following your own lead." Ah, yes. Truer words have never been spoken.

The story according to the badly copied cover goes something like this:

John's is a Chicago busy wealth lawyer of work , although there being the work that another man envys , along with good-looking wife and likable children , yet he senses being weary of of unparalleled to daily the person who duplicates uninteresting work in addition . One day , on the route that is living to home , through the glass window on route edge he catch sight of the pretty dance teacher (Zhan Nifu LUO ornament at present) moreover by her charm draw keenly . Then he resolves to start joiing (sic) the dance curriculum of this teacher , so as ca be better comprehend her , but he the life also in the wake of he this resolves and revised.

Need I say, (sic). Sic to the whole damn thing. Even the spaces between the last word in the badly mangled sentences and their accompanying punctuation marks.

The real synopsis, from the real, non-pirated movie goes like this:

John Clark is a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife and a loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home, John sees a beautiful woman, staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for dance lessons, hoping to meet her. At first, it seems like a mistake. His teacher turns out to be not Paulina, but the older Miss Mitzi, and John proves just as clumsy as his equally clueless classmates on the dance-floor. Even worse, when he does meet Paulina, she icily tells John she hopes he has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date. But, as his lessons continue, John falls in love with dancing. Keeping his new obsession from his family and co-workers, John feverishly trains for Chicago's biggest dance competition. His friendship with Paulina blossoms, as his enthusiasm rekindles her own lost passion for dance. But the more time John spends away from home, the more his wife becomes suspicious. With his secret about to be revealed, John will have to do some fancy footwork to keep his dream going and realize what it is he really yearns for.

p.s. I have not seen this movie and have no idea why anyone would recommend it except maybe for the fact that it stars Jennifer Lopez.