About this movie
- Genres:
- Documentary, Drama
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:34:39
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 2011
- Quality:
- 480 (DVD equivalent)
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Aran Bell
- Gaya Bommer Yemini
- Michaela Deprince
- Miko Fogarty
- Jules Fogarty
- Joan Sebastian Zamora
- Rebecca Houseknecht
- Denys Ganio
- Viktor Kabaniaev
- Michelle Lees
Directors
- Bess Kargman
Producers
- Bess Kargman
Also watch your movie on...
-
In addition to YouTube you can also watch your movie on Android phones and tablets using the Google Play Movies app.
Learn more
First Position
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
96%
percent positive reviews
-
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
It does a great job developing its characters through its visuals - these are superphysical kids - and honing in on family dynamics.
– Full review
-
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
If you have a yearning to feel awkward, inadequate and lazy, watching the whirling teenage (and preteen) talents in director Bess Kargman's First Position will do the trick.
– Full review
-
Tom Long, Detroit News
A number of the performances are plain stunning - Aran and Joan, in particular, seem born to move - and in many ways watching the movie is like watching a sporting event; there are winners and...
– Full review
-
Amy Hitt, Washington Post
It's an intense journey, and Kargman captures it all, down to the dancers' bloodied and bruised feet.
– Full review
-
Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle
Yes, it is possible to create a gripping documentary about the ballet world without resorting to "Black Swan" melodramatics.
– Full review
You might also like...
-
Nowhere Boy
1:39:12 2009The true story of John Lennon's troubled childhood and difficult relationship with his family is brought to the screen in this period drama. Young John (Alex Ambrose) is a bright but sharp-tongued boy living in the coastal town of Liverpool during the 1950s with his aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) and uncle George (David Threlfall). John's fath...
Paul Ritter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Bro...
79%
$9.99
-
Catfish
1:27:27 2010Love and identity become twisted across the lines of the Internet in this documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Nev Schulman is a photographer who one day received a surprising e-mail message -- Abby, an eight-year-old girl in Michigan, had seen his picture in a newspaper and wanted permission to paint a portrait from it. N...
Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Yaniv Schulman, Angela Wesselman
81%
$2.99
-
Decoding Deepak
1:14:35 2012Film-maker and journalist Gotham Chopra embarks on a year long roadtrip with his father Deepak Chopra in an attempt to resolve the spiritual icon he is to the world vs. the real man known to his family.
Deepak Chopra
50%
$5.99
-
The 11th Hour
1:32:33 2007Co-directors Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners conduct interviews with some of the world's leading scientists and creative thinkers in a film that asks whether or not it's too late to avoid the ecological disaster that looms ominously on the horizon. In addition to exploring how the human race has arrived at this crucial point in history,...
67%
$1.99
-
Selena
2:07:25 1997Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. Written and directed by Gregory Nava, this biopi...
Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda, Edwar...
64%
$1.99
-
Big Easy Express
1:06:46 2012In April 2011, three folk acts - The Old Crow Medicine Show, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Mumford & Sons - shared billing at a significant folk music event. The performers climbed aboard a vintage train and rode it from Oakland, California to New Orleans , meanwhile performing on the vehicle as part of the 'Railroad Revival Tour.' Thi...
Ted Dwane, Alex Ebert, Ben Lovett, 'Country' Winston Marshall
Staff Picks
-
I Wish
Twelve-year-old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in the southern region of Japan. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father ...
I Wish
2:08:30 2012Twelve-year-old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in the southern region of Japan. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in the northern region of Japan. The brothers have been separated by their parents' divorce, and Koichi's only wish is for his family to be reunited. When he learns that a new bullet train l...
Maeda Koki, Maeda Ohshiro, Ryan Donowho
-
Jim
Being steadily crushed under the weight of debt, unemployment, and increasing isolation, Jim reaches a breaking point. Over a game of solitary Russian roulet...
Jim
1:45:14 2010Being steadily crushed under the weight of debt, unemployment, and increasing isolation, Jim reaches a breaking point. Over a game of solitary Russian roulette he contemplates an unspeakable act of violence as a way of leaving his mark. He is stopped short by a vision of his deceased wife who convinces him that he should instead focus his remain...
Dan Illian, Vanessa Morris-Burke, Abigail Savage
-
Magic Mike
Channing Tatum stars in this drama following an upstart male stripper (Alex Pettyfer) who is mentored by a veteran dancer, played by Tatum. Steven Soderbergh...
Magic Mike
1:50:25 2012Channing Tatum stars in this drama following an upstart male stripper (Alex Pettyfer) who is mentored by a veteran dancer, played by Tatum. Steven Soderbergh directed from a script by Reid Carolin, whose screenplay was inspired by Tatum's work as a stripper before he made it in Hollywood. Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Cody Ho...
Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiel...
79%
$3.99