The Forbidden Dance (1990) on Netflix
Nisa, a princess of an indigenous tribe in Brazil, travels to Los Angeles to fight a corporation clearing her rainforest home. Jason, a rich dancer, tells her she needs television.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb4.0/102,038 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes23%
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Plot summary
Nisa is a princess of an indigenous tribe in the Brazilian rainforest, and she comes to Los Angeles to stop a corporation that is clearing her homeland. Joa, the tribe's shaman, goes with her and uses black magic to get past the corporation's guards and reach its chairman, which lands Joa in jail. With help from Carmen she finds work as a servant in a Beverly Hills mansion. Jason, the son of the strict couple she works for, lives to dance. He secretly watches her dance in her room, then takes her out to a club, where his friends turn her away and his parents scold him for paying attention to a member of the staff. Nisa quits and takes a job at Xtasy, a nightclub where she dances with male customers.
Cast
- Jeff Jamesas Jason
- Ángela Moyaas Carmen (as Angela Moya)
- Ruben Morenoas The King
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Forbidden Dance (1990)
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- Cousins and former partners Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus raced competing Lambada movies into theaters on the same day, March 16, 1990, turning The Forbidden Dance and rival film Lambada into a public feud that neither man's film survived critically or commercially.
- Producer Richard L. Albert commissioned The Forbidden Dance's script on December 7, 1989, right after seeing the group Kaoma perform "Lambada" in Los Angeles; the script was finished in about ten days and cameras rolled within a month.
- To rush The Forbidden Dance to theaters, two separate crews of editors worked around the clock, cutting footage while the film was still being shot.
- Rival film Lambada's producers filed an action with the MPAA's title registry to stop The Forbidden Dance from using the word Lambada, but New York posters got around it anyway, billing the movie as "Lambada is the Forbidden Dance."
- Despite bombing in theaters, The Forbidden Dance built a cult following over the years through constant television reruns and being sampled on pop singer Jully Luz's album Rainha do Gueto.
