The first time Nadia Georges (Kyle Kankonde) meets Juliet Gold (Savoy Bailey), they’re both trying out for a ballet role. Nadia tries to be kind to her but Juliet gets in her face and says, “Break a leg. Literally.” And that’s pretty much what happens when Nadia’s mother Salina (April Hernandez Castillo) distracts her and she slips and breaks a metatarsal bone in her foot.

Their next meeting is a bit friendlier. Nadia is struggling to teach dance and suffering through the pain of a bone that wasn’t set properly. Juliet has left dance behind, tired of having to listen to her mother live through her. She’s forced to live on her own with no monetary help, but she has an idea, thanks to her friend Paris (Raquel Antonia). She still dances. It’s a different kind of dance. But still…it’s dance.

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Mickey Valle (Rob Figueroa) is their boss at Pandora’s Palace and at first, they seem to be protected. But then he tells her that Paris has left with a man she met in the champagne room. So what seems like a fun way to keep on dancing while earning enough money to pay to live and keep their families taken care of soon spirals out of control — it’s a Tubi movie about exotic dancing, what did you expect? — and soon they’re set up and dancing in the home of organized crime figure “Handsome” Johnny Palermo (Anthony Robert Grasso) and killing made men when they feel like they’re in danger, which puts them in danger that they may not escape. And now, Mickey wants to kill them too.

Directed by Elaine del Valle and written by Cate Holahan (Deadly Estate), Midnight Hustle remembers to empower its leads without descending into the expected exotic dancing downfall for both. Instead, they both gain from the experience, despite the danger they find themselves in.

You can watch this on Tubi.