Dance Flick is a 2009 American musical comedy film directed by Damien Dante Wayans in his directorial debut and written by many of the Wayans family. It stars Shoshana Bush and Damon Wayans Jr. The film was set for release in the United States on February 6, 2009 and changed to May 22, 2009. Suburban girl Megan White (Shoshana Bush) gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans Jr.) is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a hungry obese gang lord (David Alan Grier) who only loves food. Megan later befriends Thomas' ghetto sister Charity (Essence Atkins) who has a baby but also poor parenting skills.