Battle of the Year: The Dream Team
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language and some rude behavior.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
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| Primary Audience: | Teens Adults |
| Genre: | Music Dance Drama 3D |
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| Year of Release: | 2013 |
| USA Release: |
September 20, 2013 (wide—1,800+ theaters) DVD: December 10, 2013 |
| Featuring |
Josh Peck Josh Holloway … Derrek Chris Brown Laz Alonso … Dante Terrence Jenkins Caity Lotz … Stacy Luis Rosado … Bambino Weronika Rosati … Jolene Ivan ’Flipz’ Velez … Flipz Jesse Erwin … James Steve Terada … Sight David Kim … Dante’s Bodyguard Giovanni V. Giusti … Art Director Alex Martin … Punk Natalya Oliver … Hip Hop Executive Sawandi Wilson Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm … Dante’s Bodyguard Jérôme Gaspard … Punk |
| Director |
Benson Lee |
| Producer |
Contrafilm Beau Flynn … producer Glenn S. Gainor … executive producer Amy Lo … producer Tripp Vinson … producer |
| Distributor |
 Screen Gems, a division of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment |
“The world is watching.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “‘Battle of the Year’ is the Olympics of break dancing, a tournament held every year that attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven’t won in fifteen years. Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante (Alonso) wants to put the country that started the Sport back on top. He enlists his hard-luck friend Blake (Holloway), who was a championship basketball coach, to coach his team. Armed with the theory that the right coach can make any team champions, they assemble a Dream Team of all the best b-boys across the country. With only three months until Battle of the Year, Blake has to use every tactic he knows to get twelve talented individuals to come together as a team if they’re going to bring the Trophy back to America where it started. Inspired by the actual World championship held yearly in France and the award-winning documentary, ‘Planet B Boy,’ the film is about an all-star American b-boy crew training to compete in France at the Battle of the Year (BOTY) International Championships. After a decade of defeat, the crew and their coach must go up against the best and greatest b-boys in the world: the Koreans, the Russians and the French who have dominated the original American dance form for the last 10 years.”
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