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Save The Last Dance | Year: 2001 Directed: - Thomas Carter (II) Actors/Actresses: - Julia Stiles - Bianca Lawson - Kerry Washington - Sean Patrick Thomas The Best of the Best This has got to be my all time favorite movie. It is the classic story of a white not quite spoiled teen-age girl whose parents are divorced. Sara (Stiles) is a ballet dancer. Her dream was to be "the prima ballerina." While she is trying out for the world famous dace school Julliard, her mother is rushing to see her audition. Sara messes up the audition while her mother dies in a car crash. Sara is positively devastated and holds herself responsible. Will You Want To "Save the Last Dance" Save The Last Dance is quite a bit smarter, and more entertaining, than the majority of what some people call teenybopper flicks. Much of this is due to the performances of Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas. I know Thomas only from a small role in Cruel Intentions (one of my guilty pleasures from 1999), but Stiles always seems to bring an added depth to her movies, from 10 Things I Hate About You to Hamlet. This movie's no different. She's the protagonist, the heart and soul of the movie, and she doesn't disappoint. Stiles is Sarah Johnson, a suburban teen whose life is torn apart when her mother is killed in a car accident en route to her daughter's ballet recital. Sent to live with her estranged father Roy (Terry Kinney), a down-on-his-luck jazz musician, she is forced to adapt to her new environment -- inner city Chicago. There she enrolls in a school in which she is pretty much the only color. She makes friends with Chenille Reynolds (Kerry Washington), a single mother, and her brother Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), a smart kid who is at a crossroads in life. She also makes enemies with Nikki (Bianca Lawson), who wants Derek all to herself, and Malakai (Fredro Starr), Derek's best friend and convicted criminal, who's swiftly descending into a life of crime. Needless to say, a relationship develops between Sarah and Derek, and they help each other: he gets her involved in dance again, and she opens his mind to the possibilities of life outside the hood. Save The Last Dance is more realistic than many of its counterparts. The high school looks like a real high school. The dance club is more like a dance club; ie, some people dance, some don't, and nobody breaks out into a quasi-Busby Berkeley style group dance number. And the actors make their characters seem like real people. Director Thomas Carter and screenwriters Duane Adler and Cheryl Edwards bring up a number of issues that make the movie more than just another teen flick. If you're a romantic, the ending will leave you with a huge smile on your face, and perhaps even choke you up. It's definitely worth taking a look at. One of the best movies This is one of my favorite movies of all time. It was the first movie I ever saw with Julia Stiles in, and she is now one of my favorite actresses. The story is so real. It starts when Julia's character, Sarah's, mother dies, in a car accident. She goes to live with her estranged father, in an almost-all black community. There is this whole inter-racial theme going on, and really puts up with what it is for whites to date blacks. The whole story is amazing, and there are so many sub-plots; teenage pregnancy, drugs, parent problems, (i.e. splitting, and death,) moving, and relationship. Sarah wants to go to Julliard for ballet, but then after she moves she goes to a club where everything is hip-hop, and she's on the outside. An amazing movie with an excellant cast. Buy Save The Last Dance at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Save The Last Dance Search with the Priority Search Engine on Save The Last Dance This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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