How She Move: Promising Prep Student Returns to Ghetto Roots in Inspirational Dance Saga

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This means Raya will, have to return home and attend the local public high school, McCabe, which doesn't measure up academically to the elite private institution where she's been on track to study medicine. Worse, she'll have to try to survive the streets of the same crime-infested neighborhood that took her sibling's life and could quite easily gobble up her future, too.

Back in the 'hood, Raya puts her ambitibns on hold temporarily and focuses more on fitting-in than on excelling, so she won't be ostracized as an egghead. However, when she's exposed for dumbing herself down at the blackboard by her math teacher, her punishment is to tutor a truly struggling classmate twice a week afterhours.

Trouble is, like oil and water, the personalities of hard-edged Michelle (Tre Armstrong) and relatively-refined Raya don't mix. What's worse, Michelle doesn't appreciate it when the newcomer suddenly starts hanging out with her "Step" crowd.

Be prepared to root for Raya for the duration of this-satisfying saga, as she sheds tears, studies and stomps her way to the big stage, all while handling an array of pressing teen dilemmas in a refreshingly intelligent fashion for an inner city melodrama.

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How She Move: Promising Prep Student Returns to Ghetto Roots in Inspirational Dance Saga

Raya Green's (Rutina Wesley) dreams of becoming a doctor teem to be dashed when her elder sister dies of a drug overdose. Sadly, the tragedy leaves her alread...

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