Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 01/12/2007(USA)
Release Date: 05/15/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in this youth-oriented
musical drama.
DJ Williams (
Columbus Short) is a 19-year-old growing up in Los Angeles; while
DJ is at heart a good kid and a gifted street dancer, he runs with a dangerous crowd, and one night an underground dance competition turns into a brawl and
DJ ends up in jail.
DJ's younger brother has already died a violent death, and his mother, hoping to put him back on the straight and narrow, sends
DJ off to Truth University, a historically African-American college in Atlanta. At first,
DJ feels like a misfit at Truth, but when he gets a chance to show off his dancing skills, he attracts the attention of two campus fraternities. Greek life is a major presence at Truth, and each year the fraternities take part in a "stepping" competition, in which the members show off their synchronized dance moves.
DJ joins the ONO house, and is eager to help them take the championship away from their campus rivals, but in time he also comes to understand the brotherhood and community service that's a key part of his fraternity's background.
DJ also has more on his mind than dancing and studying when he meets
April (
Meagan Good), a beautiful coed. Produced under the title
Steppin',
Stomp the Yard also stars
Ne-Yo,
Brian J. White, and
Jermaine Williams.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
