 How She Move
Starring: Tracey Armstrong, Rutina Wesley, Clé Bennett, Nina Dobrey, Romina D'Ugo, Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Fernandez, Brennan Gademans, Jai Jai Jones
Directed by: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Screenplay by: Annmarie Morais
Release Date: January 25th, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some drug content, suggestive material and language.
Studio: Paramount Vantage
 Domestic: $7,070,641 (83.2%)
Foreign:$1,428,633 (16.8%)
Total: $8,499,274 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: Set your dreams in motion.
Raya Green is seventeen-years-old, incredibly bright and full of promise. She attends a prestigious private school outside her tough, crime-ridden neighborhood. When a family tragedy leaves her family unable to pay her tuition, Raya is forced to return to the old community she so desperately wants to escape.
She soon finds herself drawn into the world of underground dance competitions and smells an opportunity to win some money, get out of the neighborhood, help her family and return to her old school. But as the dance tournament unfolds, Raya realizes that real success only comes to those brave enough to tackle it on their own terms.
Stepping, an intensely rhythmic, percussive and expressive form of dancing that began as a way of connecting people in Africa, has suddenly become a major phenomenon across North America. It was first seen in the U.S. in the 1920s when college students called it "marching," but it wasn't until Spike Lee's School Daze that stepping first hit the big screen.
Since then, stepping has become hotter and hotter - not just among university students and not just in hit Hollywood films such as Drumline and Stomp the Yard, but on the streets as well, in inner cities where stepping is increasingly becoming both a thrilling form of competitive art and a way for a talented few to literally "step up" into a more promising future.
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