
His best friends are Mac Carter (Damaine Radcliff) and his little brother Skinny Carter (De'Shawn Washington) and they use to hang around together, going to parties and stealing cars. In Baltimore, the troublemaker and street dancer Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) lives with his foster parents in an Afro-American lower class neighborhood. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil After an incident, Tyler has to decide to follow his dream or return to his life of rebel loser. When Andrew returns, Tyler that is known for quitting everything he starts gives up dancing and leaves Nora alone. One afternoon, the ballet dancer Nora Clark sees Tyler dancing in the parking area and when her partner Andrew has a strain and Tyler offers to help her in the choreography, she accepts the offer they rehearsal and become close to each other while Tyler becomes friend of the students Miles Darby and Lucy Avila. Tyler is arrested and sentenced to 200 hours of community service in the school and Director Gordon assigns him to help the janitor cleaning the place.

After being expelled from a party, the trio breaks in the Maryland School of Arts and commits vandalism, destroying the stage. His best friends are Mac Carter and his little brother Skinny Carter and they used to hang around together, going to parties and stealing cars.


In Baltimore, the troublemaker and street dancer Tyler Gage lives with his foster parents in a lower class neighborhood.
