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intereact!Director: Thomas Carter
Actors: Terry Kinney, Julia Stiles, Garland Whitt, Fredro Starr, and Sean Patrick Thomas
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $12.98
Release Date: 2001-06-19
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Studio: Paramount
Run Time: 112 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
Save the Last Dance enjoyed a profitable release in early 2001, with box-office earnings that exceeded anyone's expectations. Its performance illustrates the staying power of a formulaic movie that avoids the pitfalls and clichés that would otherwise render it forgettable. Since there's nothing new here, you'll appreciate the original quirks in a character-based plot that's just around the corner from Flashdance, and just as familiar. Sara (Julia Stiles) gave up a promising ballet career when her mother was killed while rushing to attend her daughter's crucial audition to Juilliard; Sara blames herself for the accident, and at her new, mostly African American high school in Chicago, she's uncertain of her future. Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas) has no such doubts; his own future is bright, and his attraction to Sara is immediate; they connect (predictably), and Sara's dormant funk emerges, with Derek's coaching, as she learns hip-hop dancing in a local club. Obligatory subplots are equally routine: Derek's sister (Kerry Washington) is a single mom struggling with her child's absentee father; Derek's best friend (Fredro Starr) feels trapped in his gangsta lifestyle; and Sara's once-estranged father (Terry Kinney) is doing his best to correct past mistakes. Within the confines of this standard follow-your-dream drama, director Thomas Carter capitalizes on a script that allows these characters to be real, intelligent, and thoughtful about their lives and their futures. It's obvious that Stiles's dancing was intercut with that of a professional double, but that illusion hardly matters when the rest of the movie's so earnestly positive and genuine. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Interracial romantic stereotyping at it's finest! [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I hate interracial romance movies they are all the same. It's always a black-white pairing.As if to imply that in order for the race relations to improve we need to date white. As a black woman I find this annoying and insulting.So this movie is implying that whites are more open-minded about interracial dating get outta town!Most people date and possibly marry exclusive within their ethnic background. Interracial dating is an anomaly! Most couples want their offspring to look like them.I admit I find men of all races of attractive not just white men or in the case of black men they can appreciate the beauty of women of all races doesn't mean they're gonna tie the knot outside their ethnic background.2) Save the Last Dance - It's a keeper [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Definitely one of my favorite movies. It makes you want to get up and dance during the movie. If you love a good love story, this is a winner for you.3) A tasty casserole of movie themes [Rating: 4 out of 5]
You've got great ingredients for this movie. Julia Styles is wonderful. Sean Patrick Thomas is fantastic. The directing and choreography were first-rate. In lesser hands, the writer could have made a hash out of the well-worn themes in this movie, but instead he worked all these themes together into a coherent whole: * The "teenage coming of age" movie, like All the Right Moves. * The "star-crossed young lovers" movie, like Romeo and Juliet. * The "forbidden interracial love" movie, like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. * The "guilt over the death of someone close to me will only temporarily stop me from performing" movie, like Stomp the Yard (I know: Stomp the Yard is a later film). * The "overcome adversity to get into a top-notch dance school" movie, like Flashdance. * The "go to new school with everyone of a different ethnicity than you" movie, like Finding Forrester (yet another great Sean Patrick Thomas movie). * The "are you going to follow your gang or not" movie, like Boyz N the Hood. * And, of course, the "broken family trying to heal" movie, like every Disney movie ever made except Peter Pan.4) Save the Last Dance- Why Julia Stiles? [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I purchased Save The Last Dance and was disappointed only in some of the scenes that viewed in the movie. Overall it was a great movie. My only beef, is why did they put Julia Stiles in the role to play opposite someone like Sean Patrick Thomas? Julia did really well in the dance scenes, but in the part she played as Sara Johnson, I personally think they should have picked another actress. Why you ask? Simply because to me, Julia did not come across the screen to me as someone who truly was in love with Derek. You know the part she played as Sara. It just didn't seem real to me. The emotion was not there, it's like she was being forced to play at being in love with someone. Teens have strong emotions in those years and her part just didn't seem believeable. Other than that the movie was good and I enjoyed it. I didn't particularly care for Malachi, but the actor playing the part, played it well because you weren't supposed to like Malachi. I am not down on Julia Stiles, I have seen some of her other movies and she always nailed the part like it was supposed to be, but I'm sorry that I can't say the same for this movie. I do want to buy the sequel and soon I will. If you like hiphop and dance scenes this is your movie, as for the love scenes Sara (Julia) didn't make the cut in my point of view. Also, new actress, Kerry Washington did a great job at playing Chenille. I think she has or should have a great future ahead of her.5) "Two different Worlds" [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This movie is about two different worlds coming together. The main chacater Sara who has moved from a settled town. Now living with her father in the hood.In the end finds the love of her life named Derrick. By Derrick hanging with wrong coward he has to make a choice. In the end love and their passsion to suceed brought them back together. Now thbeir dreams are a reality