It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

When Tyler finds himself doing community service at a school for the performing arts, he also finds Nora, a beautiful and privileged classically trained dancer, who's searching for a temporary replacement for her injured partner. Spying Tyler's smooth moves, Nora decides to take a chance on him, geting him enrolled in the school, but as they begin training, tension builds, tempers flare and the differences in their backgrounds explode. 'Step Up' is a standard wrong side of the tracks/right side find out more...