Mirrors

1985

Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 12% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 102 102

Director

Harry Winer Photo
Harry Winer

Top cast

Shanna Reed Photo
Shanna Reed as Diane
Galyn Görg Photo
Galyn Görg as
Patricia Morison Photo
Patricia Morison as Mrs. Rome
Keenan Wynn Photo
Keenan Wynn as Reverend Dahlstrom
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909.99 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.65 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by torrascotia 5 / 10

When Dancers Get Old..

Mirrors is yet another ballet movie, this time from the 80's and apparently made for TV. Not that that you can tell.This is yet another career journey movie which follows a girl from the age of 17, as she pursues her dream of being a professional ballerina. However at just 17 she meets a reporter, aged 28 who enables her first big break by writing about her. Which sparks romantic feelings in her, but he rebuffs her due to her age. While this is a PG made for TV it does contain some dark themes such as underage sex, suicide, gay relationships and adultery. Its clearly not a kids movie so an older certification would have been more appropriate.What follows is the main characters progress as a struggling professional and her on again off again reporter boyfriend. Which complicates matters as neither one of them can seem to match career success in the same city.This is clearly a movie which is supposed to appeal to young female wannabe dancers. Because it clearly frames being a dancer as the most important thing in life, even though it clearly isn't. Its also confusing because the film does show the downsides of putting dance before everything else in life and trying to hang in too long.This is a very strange movie and its clearly not been seen by enough people to have been reviewed on here more than once.Its well enough made and acted, it just clearly sits in the frame of pushing the idea that dance matters more than anything else in life. Which isn't exactly a healthy mentality. The female lead framing of the story as well just doesn't chime with reality, in terms of how the men would behave in a relationship. All in all it feels like it was written by a teenage girl who was obsessed with ballet and romance novels.The only cinephile Easter Egg in this movie is that Night Of The Comet was showing in theatres in scene where the main cast were in the city centre.
Reviewed by blanche-2 6 / 10

Horrible dialogue and a bunch of cliches make up "Mirrors" (1985) starring Marguerite Hickey, Tim Daly, Shanna Reed and a supporting cast of old vets.Here's the weird part. I enjoyed it.Hickey (from my home town) is a beautiful, fresh-faced teen ballet dancer. She takes the opportunity to move to New York City, leaving behind her boyfriend, baby-faced Tim Daly.Here I pause. Were any of us really that young? Hickey had that glow you lose after 25, and Daly is just a kid, as is Shanna Reed.That's what makes it fun. The writer, James Lipton, had a wonderful sense of what it's like to be young and in New York for the first time: the crazy living situations, the humor, the excitement, and the comradery, as well as chorus auditions and rehearsals. All very accurate.The dance numbers, choreographed by the Broadway choreographer Gracielle Danielle, are fantastic.I watched this because I am a fan of the late Tony Hamilton, who left us too soon. He was originally a ballet dancer before modeling and turning to acting. Unhappily, I'm not sure he really danced in this - though I hope it was him in the long shot of the pas de deux.He plays Gino, the playboy dancer. One of the most gorgeous men who ever lived.One small correction- straight people never referred to their dates as "tricks."Predictable story, but a chance to see Keenan Wynn, Signe Hasso, and Patricia Morison and for some of us, nice memories.
Reviewed by blanche-2 6 / 10

Young people trying to make it in New York

Horrible dialogue and a bunch of cliches make up "Mirrors" (1985) starring Marguerite Hickey, Tim Daly, Shanna Reed and a supporting cast of old vets.Here's the weird part. I enjoyed it.Hickey (from my home town) is a beautiful, fresh-faced teen ballet dancer. She takes the opportunity to move to New York City, leaving behind her boyfriend, baby-faced Tim Daly.Here I pause. Were any of us really that young? Hickey had that glow you lose after 25, and Daly is just a kid, as is Shanna Reed.That's what makes it fun. The writer, James Lipton, had a wonderful sense of what it's like to be young and in New York for the first time: the crazy living situations, the humor, the excitement, and the comradery, as well as chorus auditions and rehearsals. All very accurate.The dance numbers, choreographed by the Broadway choreographer Gracielle Danielle, are fantastic.I watched this because I am a fan of the late Tony Hamilton, who left us too soon. He was originally a ballet dancer before modeling and turning to acting. Unhappily, I'm not sure he really danced in this - though I hope it was him in the long shot of the pas de deux.He plays Gino, the playboy dancer. One of the most gorgeous men who ever lived.One small correction- straight people never referred to their dates as "tricks."Predictable story, but a chance to see Keenan Wynn, Signe Hasso, and Patricia Morison and for some of us, nice memories.
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