Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance

2001 "The Only Person You Need To Be Is Yourself."
Save the Last Dance
Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance

6.2 | 1h53m | PG-13 | en | Drama

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

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6.2 | 1h53m | PG-13 | en | Drama , Music , Romance | More Info
Released: January. 12,2001 | Released Producted By: MTV Films , Cort/Madden Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

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Julia Stiles , Sean Patrick Thomas , Kerry Washington

Director

Diane Hughes

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MTV Films , Cort/Madden Productions

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SnoopyStyle Ballet dancer Sara Johnson (Julia Stiles) begs her mother to attend her Julliard School audition. She is heart-broken when her mother dies in a car crash rushing to her audition. She is forced to live with her estranged father Roy (Terry Kinney) in the rough part of Chicago. The school is almost all-black. She befriends teen mom Chenille Reynolds (Kerry Washington) but doesn't get along with her brother Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas) ... at first.It starts as a pretty simple formulaic story offering many clichés of an inner-city neighborhood. Julia Stiles could be a little softer in the beginning but her character is closed off from the tragedy. Her chemistry with Thomas is functional. It's always surprising to rediscover that somebody like Kerry Washington was a major supporting actress. The movie does offer sincere melodramatic turns. I wouldn't call this realism. It's sincere star-crossed lovers in the ghetto.
lisafordeay Save The Last Dance is a 2001 Paramount Pictures film and tells the tale of a inspiring ballerina named Sara(played by Julia Stiles from 10 Things I Hate About You)who gives up her life as a ballerina as her mother died in a fatal car crash leaving her to grief over her mother and move to a new town with her step dad Roy(well she doesn't call him dad so I prosume his her stepfather). Sara goes to a new school that's mixed race and meets a girl called Charlene(played by Kerry Washington)and her handsome brother Derek(played by Sean Patrick Thomas)who Sara later falls for. Derek helps Sara accomplish her dream again to go to Julliard and become a ballerina as she told him that she was the one to blame for her mom's death and so he decides to teach her some hip hop dancing in an old building that's set to be renewed.Together with the help of Hip Hop dancing and ballet can Sara ever get the chance to do what she dreamt of doing.Predictable yet familiar to Step Up,Save The Last Dance is a very entertaining flick and it should get more than 5.9 out of 10 on IMDb. I didn't see this film since it was on TV years ago and I got it on DVD yesterday for a bargain at PLAY and I decided to watch it 10 Min's ago. My main issue is the way they treat white people and call them trashy and whatever and Derek's mix doesn't want him to be with Sara because she's not colored like him,now that is pure racism but still this movie was very good.A 7 out of 10.
thertogurto Just another Hollywood propaganda movie where all the whites are helpless boring nerds, and the white woman needs to be rescued by the hip, handsome black man. Fortunately, the only white women to fall for this in real life are usually fat or dumb. This movie probably responsible for so much race-mixing (and, by extension, fatherless homes, wife beating, etc.,) I truly believe that the producers of this film ought to be imprisoned. I will never see a movie with Julia Stiles in it again. Hollywood will not stop pumping these stupid movies out. If they're not directly promoting race-mixing, then they are at least promoting the "blacks are so cool and so hip, and whites are just nerds" image. It's just sick.
Jackson Booth-Millard I had no real information about the film's story, i.e. I didn't realise it was about ballet before hip hop dancing, but it was when I saw the scene spoofed in Scary Movie 2 that I really got into it more. Basically Sara Johnson (The Bourne Trilogy and 10 Things I Hate About You's Julia Stiles) was once an aspiring ballet dancer, but her dream to become a professional was cut short by the death of her mother, and since she has moved in with her father Roy (Terry Kinney). He lives in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, and she has to be transferred to a new school where she is one of the few White students. She finds a friend with small-time ghetto girl Chenille Reynolds (The Last King of Scotland's Kerry Washington), and later she gets to see Sara's ballet ability. Later after starting a friendship with Chenille's brother Derek (Cruel Intentions' Sean Patrick Thomas), he teaches her how her ballet skills can be put to use for an audition (the one she could have had if not for her mother's death). In a really cool scene he teaches some small cool moves, like the spoof in Scary Movie 2, and as time goes by, she gains more and more hip hop moves till she has a routine for the judges. There is the small quarrel between Sara and Derek before this audition happens, but she sticks it out, they make up, and she makes a very good impression with the judges mixing ballet with a bit of hip hop. Also starring Fredro Starr as Malakai, Bianca Lawson as Nikki, Vince Green as Snookie and Garland Whitt as Kenny. Stiles and Thomas are attractive leads, the dance sequences, especially the all important audition are fun to watch, and the soundtrack (including songs from Fatman Scoop, Ice Cube and Blaqout) is very good, and not too much sentimentality to sour the film, a crowd-pleasing dance/music film. Worth watching!