Nominated for 11 Academy Awards Including Best Picture

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma (Anne Bancroft)) would become an international ballet icon. but when Deedee's teenage daughter (Leslie Browne in her film debut) is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star (Mikhail Baryshnikov in his film debut), the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden, and the emotional truths they must face at The Turning Point.

Tom Skeritt, Anthony Zerbe and the artists of The American Ballet Theatre co-star in this Oscar-nominated classic written by Arthur Laurentis (The Way We Were, West Side Story) and directed by Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias, Footloose) that became one of the most acclaimed dramas of the decade and remains among the most stunning dance films of all time.