Honey 3: Dare to Dance
Honey 3: Dare to Dance is a 2016 American dance film directed by Bille Woodruff and starring Cassie Ventura and Kenny Wormald. It is the third installment in the Honey film series. The film was released on Netflix and DVD and Blu-ray on September 6, 2016. Filming for Honey 3 took place in Cape Town, South Africa.
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| Directed by | Bille Woodruff |
| Written by | Catherine Cyran |
| Produced by | Mike Elliott |
| Starring | Cassie Ventura Kenny Wormald Dena Kaplan Sibo Mlambo Bobby Lockwood Clayton Evertson Terry Sauls |
| Cinematography | Michael Cleary |
| Edited by | Eric Potter |
| Music by | Mark Kilian |
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| Distributed by | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The story revolves around a dancer named Melea Martin (Cassie Ventura), who wants to put on a contemporary hip hop dance production of Romeo and Juliet to honor her mother, with boyfriend Erik Wildwood (Kenny Wormald), but her dreams of presenting the play through her prestigious school are crushed when she's kicked out for failure to pay her tuition. Searching for a way to use her talents and inspire the community around her, she rents a failing theater in order to present the dance show, but conflicts between cast members threaten to bring the whole performance to a halt.
The film, which is the second sequel to 2003's Honey, has a tenuous link to its predecessors, with no recurring cast members, and the only canonical reference to the original film is that the main character Melea comes from Honey Daniels' dance studio. It was followed by another straight-to-video sequel Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018).