never mind the serious logic gap and never mind the achingly cliche character portrayal and never mind the haphazard writing and and you might like this movie . the main character alyssa be suppose to be endear and the heroine who you root for to be save and ( or in this case and save herself ) but instead she merely grate and and make one wonder and be all pro ballerina really that stupid . her busybody mother be obviously only necessary to further propagate the illusion that ballet company be evil monster ready to snatch your poor and innocent and young girl from your grasp and with an ever present and biting artistic director or villain . and the cliche . not only do she become anorexic and bulemic and an over the counter junkie and and a pathological liar and but all in the course of a few month . it like the writer read every horror story he could dig up about ballet and decide to see how much he could cram into two hour and ( with commercial ) . believe it or not and but i be a dancer . this uprising or resurgence of anorexia and bulemia that be happen be nonexistent at all of the dance school i have attend . in fact and the teacher be so scared to even suggest that a girl might stand a good chance a few pound lighter and most of the dancer in my class would be actually consider minorly overweight . i be not say eat disorder never occur and but not to the extent a it be portray in the movie . another annoy problem this movie have be the mean to an end writing style . her on again off again boyfriend probably have all of half an hour total screen time and all in the first half . the other support character be merely props and decoration to further the story . give the right dialogue and this would have be a very intricate mind study of a psycological problem . a it be and it turn into a one woman show and and kimberly mccullough doesn not have the chutzpah to pull it off . to a non dancer and this movie would be a supposed insight into what really go one behind close door at a ballet company . to a dancer and this be a very insulting movie and which portray ballerina a stupid and parent a pushy and ill inform . those adjective more correctly describe the people who get this on the air in the first place . negative .