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Sara (Julia Stiles) wants to be a ballerina, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. She moves in with her father (Terry Kinney), who she has not seen for a long time, in Chicago, mainly the ghetto. She gets transferred to a new school where she is the only white there. Her life takes a turn for the better when she is friends with Chenille (Kerry Washington). Later, she falls in love with her brother, Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas).System Requirements:Running Time: 112 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
With her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina decimated by the accidental death of her mother, Sara Johnson (Stiles) is forced to move from her quiet Midwestern town to her father's ghetto apartment on the south side of Chicago. The stark urban environment's contrast of race and class compound Sara's loss and her misplaced guilt, which are both exacerbated by the fact that her mother had been en route to her dance performance at the time of her death. But when she meets Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), a popular black student with a passion for hip-hop and a future brighter than his troubled past, her repressed ambition and sorrow are released through a revitalized interest in the cathartic and expressive power of dance. Their friendship and mutual interest in dancing inexorably lead to a passionate romance that raises the sadly typical, bigoted resistance from Sara's white father and Derek's black friends. Widely hailed by critics for being as sophisticated and intelligent as it is viscerally passionate, SAVE THE LAST DANCE enjoyed the top of the American box office in its first weekend in release, playing to sold out shows across the country, a landslide affirmation that Sara and Derek are not as alone as they think.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| (unspecified) - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Featurette:
| 1. SAVE THE LAST DANCE 2 Sneak Peak | | 2. In Step: The Choreographer's Story | | 3. The Writer's Story |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 2/5/2008 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 119804 | | UPC: 00097361198040 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "You come and take one of the few decent men left after drugs, jail and drive--bys."---- Chenille (Washington) to Sara (Stiles) | | "We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one." |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...[Stiles'] performance, and her dancing, blossom in a pleasant, spirited way....Thomas projects a potently attractive self-confidence..." 01/08/2001 p.37-8Entertainment Weekly
"...SAVE THE LAST DANCE teaches that you should never give up your dreams and that love is all you need..." 01/19/2001 p.63 Total Film
"...[The film has] smart performances and pulls off the rare trick of tackling some thorny racial issues without becoming blandly moralistic..." 04/01/2001 p.85 Los Angeles Times
"...Well-crafted and smoothly paced, SAVE THE LAST DANCE benefits most strongly from its predominately youthful cast....Lawson and the most appealing Washington make impressions as vivid as those of Stiles and Thomas..." 01/12/2001 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way....[Stiles is] one of the most talented of the emerging generation of actresses..." 01/12/2001 p.20 |
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