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Product Description ------------------- From Baz Lurhrmann -- the director of the award-winning hits ROMEO & JULIET and MOULIN ROUGE! -- comes STRICTLY BALLROOM ... the hilariously funny romantic comedy that's sure to leave you laughing, cheering, and feeling great! It's the magical story of a championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules, and his ugly duckling dancing partner. Together they make their dreams come true! Now celebrating its glorious 10th Anniversary -- you're sure to enjoy this exhaustively funny comedy as it dances and soars its way straight into your heart. Critics everywhere fell madly in love with this big-screen treat -- and so will you! Set Contains: ------------- The 10th-anniversary DVD of Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom does everything it can to associate itself with the director's 2001 musical Moulin Rouge, from its cover art to its red-curtain animated menus. The commentary track, by Luhrmann, Catherine Martin (Luhrmann's wife and the O(r)-winning production designer for Moulin Rouge), and choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell, is rather broad, often covering general points about the movie or about Moulin Rouge instead of the specific scene that is playing. Trivia tidbits include the decision to cast actors rather than dancers (Paul Mercurio being a notable exception) and how the department tried to shut down the film. The DVD also includes Maria Stratford's 1986 documentary "From Samba to Slow Fox," a 30-minute examination of the Australian ballroom-dancing scene (mirrored in Strictly Ballroom's faux-documentary opening), and five short Luhrmann-narrated featurettes, the most interesting of which present backstage photos and international promotional art. --David Horiuchi