Miss Dubois
★ 10 · 9m · Drama
When her best friend drags Parisian anti-american Lizette Dubois to a ballroom dance class, she meets Jacob ‘Jake’ James, a big-hearted American tourist from the Midwest with a troubled past. Despite her best efforts to avoid him, Lizette keeps crossing paths with Jake and must decide if she’ll keep him at arm’s length or let go of her prejudices and accept him for who he is... despite where he's from.
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