Taglines: Your dreams are just a step away.
Stepping Out movie storyline. Mavis Turner conducts instruction in tap dancing inside a Buffalo, New York church basement. Once an aspiring Broadway hoofer, Mavis is now merely trying to make ends meet, while also struggling with a personal relationship with a career-frustrated musician boyfriend.
With the glum Mrs. Fraser accompanying on piano, Mavis tries to teach tap to a class of colorful women and a solitary man, the bashful Geoffrey. Few are aware at first that one woman, Andi, is seeking a form of escape from a physically abusive husband. Others with a variety of extroverted personalities attend class simply for their own amusement, occasionally getting on each other’s nerves.
Concerned about money and keeping the class going, Mavis learns of a talent competition and persuades the group that it can compete. While dealing with their personal issues, the “Mavis Turner Tappers” end up performing a glamorous, glitzy number on stage, flawed but rewarding to all.
Stepping Out is a 1991 American musical comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, written by Richard Harris, based on a play also written by Harris, and starring Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters, Robyn Stevan, Jane Krakowski, Sheila McCarthy, Andrea Martin and Carol Woods.
Most of the actors are Broadway-level actors and performers, several of whom have won Tony Awards, specifically Minnelli, Jane Krakowski, Andrea Martin, Bill Irwin and Ellen Greene (nominee). Shelley Winters and Minnelli are Academy Award winners, and Walters is an Oscar nominee as well as being a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winner. Carol Woods was the only member of the Broadway cast to appear in the film.
Stepping Out (1991)
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters, Robyn Stevan, Jane Krakowski, Sheila McCarthy, Andrea Martin, Carol Woods
Screenplay by: Richard Harris
Production Design by: Peter Mullins
Cinematography by: Alan Hume
Film Editing by: Humphrey Dixon
Costume Design by: Candy Paterson
Set Decoration by: Steve Shewchuk
Art Direction by: Alicia Keywan
Music by: Peter Matz
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: October 11, 1991
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