Josh lives in New York but has orders from court to settle in North Dakota with his father whom he is not in good terms with. He feels like he is a stranger in a new town until a dance team seeks his help so they can be ready for a state competition.
There is nothing brave about "Bravetown," a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true.
From a desperate, Nicholas Spark-wannabe script by Oscar Orlando Torres, director Daniel Duran has fashioned a movie we have all seen before. Many times.
While it hints at something deeper, this slick coming-of-age drama about redemption and reconciliation instead chooses a more formulaic path to catharsis.
