Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

5.9IMDb Score
Released:2006-01-12
Duration:103 min
Director:Randall Miller
Actors:Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Elden Henson
Production:Shoreline Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Unclaimed Freight Productions

Overview:

Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.

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