The Turning Point
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Oct 1, 2026
RobHOST
So let's spin the wheel and see what you got.
RobHOST
All right, the 1977 film The Turning Point.
RobHOST
Have you ever seen that? It's all about ballet dancing.
Jon BamptonGUEST
No.
RachelHOST
The movie, I guess, which was the precursor to the show, right? Yeah.
RachelHOST
He also was in The Turning Point with Shirley MacLaine in 77.
RachelHOST
Harold and Maude in 71.
RachelHOST
Although he was credited as M. Borman in...
BillHOST
Footloose, 1984, directed by Herbert Ross, written by Dean Pritchard.
BillHOST
Herbert Ross directed The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, Steel Magnolias, and The Secret
ChrisHOST
of My Success.
BillHOST
He was a dancer originally.
Louis RendonHOST
Yeah, truly.
Louis RendonHOST
With the drama of The Turning Point, where she plays a retired ballerina who, you know, gave up her career to have kids.
Louis RendonHOST
Wow.
Louis RendonHOST
very much mirroring her mother's and father's experience.
Louis RendonHOST
Is that the right word? I don't fucking know.
Louis RendonHOST
To be in so many movies that have... delicious, meaty parts for multiple women.
Louis RendonHOST
And The Turning Point is definitely one of those where they both play ballerinas and Bancroft's character did not retire.
Louis RendonHOST
She's kind of like getting to the end of her career.
Andrea BertingHOST
And I'm Andrea Berting.
Andrea BertingHOST
Today we're discussing The Turning Point, winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay at the 30th Writer's Guild of America Awards held in 1978.
Trevor OwensHOST
The Turning Point is written by Arthur Lawrence, directed by Herbert Ross, and stars Shirley MacLaine as Dee Dee Rogers, Anne Bancroft as Emma Jacqueline, and just a whole host of people.
Trevor OwensHOST
We got Tom Skerritt.
Trevor OwensHOST
We got Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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Andrea BertingHOST
Absolutely, yeah.
Andrea BertingHOST
And then Emma and Dee Dee are friends again, and it ends with Amelia dancing during the credits.
Andrea BertingHOST
And that's the end of The Turning Point.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
Here's the interesting thing.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
After Godfather 2, Herbert Ross has both The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl as nominees.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
And then in 2000, Steven Soderbergh has Erin Brockovich and Traffic and wins for Traffic, which I think is the only other time one of the films wins.
Adam Tex DavisHOST
But yeah, what do you think of The Godfather winning?
ChrisHOST
Like I said, it's a really great drama.
ChrisHOST
The director, Herbert Ross, he did a film I like called The Turning Point, which has Mikhail Baryshnikov in it.
ChrisHOST
It's a ballet movie.
ChrisHOST
Then he also did Footloose and The Secret of My Success, both big films in the 80s there.