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Summary: Only one film of the year makes you feel this way...
Review: Inspiring. Since I am a young film maker and actor I can say this with a real meaning. From the start, emotion, inspiration, happiness and more. This film would not have been anywhere near as good if it weren't for a very talented nineteen year old, new US actress Julia Stiles. To say it all in a few senteces: Sarah (Julia) has her mother killed in a car accident whilst on her way to see Sarah in a ballet audition. Sarah moves to Chicago with her distant father and begins her first day in a near all black surburban school. She meets (Seann Patrick Scott) a popular black guy who tutors Sarah on hip hop dance. At the same time she feels ballet would be the way, which (Scott) helps happen and tops it off with a kiss. Of course the others around the inter racial couple do not really approve, some nasty confrontations do arise. I you have not seen, see and if you have seen, see again. Good work Mr Carter.
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Summary: The Doctor and The Ballerina
Review: I had wanted to see this film forever, the soundtrack was out of this world and everyone said it was amazing. Or everyone I listened to at least. So I finally saw it and had cause to believe them. I didn't want to leave the theatre after it was over, only to sit there and watch them dance and smile and let it all wash over me. We sat there long after everyone had left thinking that if only Sean Patrick Thomas would smile at us our lives would be sorted.Of course it wasn't just the smile it was everything about the movie. Julia Stiles plays a poigniant ballerina caught up in the midst of loss and confusion while Thomas, the aspiring pediatrician, becomes her saviour. We adored them, wanted them to be real because we had never seen anyone dance like they did. She had grace and beauty and he had style and energy, together they became something we could happily watch and get lost in. As they save each other form the worlds that they exist in and the emotions that surround them the movie expands into its social context, is more than just the dancing and the physical energy that seems to crackle between Stiles and Thomas. The soundtrack contributes to everything that the movie becomes and is erratic and interchangeable, it portrays a side of both our doctor and our ballerina. I couldn't not smile when they smiled, or feel I should be dancing when they danced. They made me move and you have to give them credit for sharing their energy with us.
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Summary: Hey at least it had a message
Review: Well I though this movie was pretty funny as a comedy, and hey it had a decent message. The lives of the primary characters were going downhill when they were "getting wasted" every night, and once they took control of their lives things turned around. Hey it was funny too. Yah it didn't win any academy awards, but that is just actors giving other actors awards anyway, so I tend to ignore that.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I think this movie has a little bit of everything to please everybody. It has the romance for the women and teen girls, The gangs and violence for the teen boyus and the men, and it's a good date movie because of the romance and love stuff. I loved this movie and urge everybody to buy it. It was my second favorite movie. My favorite being 10 things I hate about you also Julia Stiles. GREAT MOVIE!
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Summary: Great Awesome Funny And Soooo Sweet!
Review: Its a awesome sweet funny and the best movie ever! Go and check it out im buying it for sure when it comes on video!!!!
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Summary: Sometimes it goes so very right
Review: Ballet is tricky. It is, after all, 'high art', not instantly accessible or naturally multiplex-enticing. So it is wonderful that the makers of Save the Last Dance had the guts and intelligence to take the ballet - one of the key narrative and character hooks of the film - seriously. (Unlike the makers of last year's Billy Elliot, supposedly the story of a ballet-dancing hopeful, who were clearly so ashamed of ballet that they gave it virtually no screen time, replacing it with lamely choregraphed tap and, worse, bouncing up and down to hits of the 70s.) Indeed, the makers of Save the Last Dance take everything seriously. For an MTV teen/romantic drama/whatever this film has a gravity I didn't expect. The two hour run-time gives them time to explore the personal worlds the leading characters inhabit, while never using a scene where a line or a look would do. On that count, it's potentially the least patronising, and least slick, story-telling I've seen for months. What no long scenes with characters explaining the plot to each other? And no huge tear-jerking 10 minute death scene for the mother? And with the time they've saved, we get to see dancing. Perhaps somewhat over-edited dancing (we forgive you, MTV) but since when has a recent musical had such quiet but perfect dance numbers as the scenes where Derek teaches Sara? Equally, Sara's final audition piece looks convincing as a ballet/hip-hop meld, rather than the expected hip-hop sugar to help the 'boring stuff' go down. But getting the ballet right made me nervous that the makers would fall down elsewhere. The acting? Well, the central two roles are impeccably and untrickily acted by Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas, with uniformly strong support from the rest of the cast. The writing? The dialogue is pleasingly untalky, short on cliche and long on making every word count, while the plotting is happily old-fashioned in its tendency to give time and attention to airing debate and tying up loose ends. And for once in a long long while, a soundtrack used for texture rather than telling us precisely what we should be feeling for every millisecond of the film. And the final message? Well, in any other movie it would be Derek who 'dances his way out of the ghetto' via ballet (hello Billy Elliott), and Julia Stiles would be off to be the surgeon. So the mere fact that the dancer and the surgeon are the other way round is refreshing. Plus, surprise!, a Hollywood film with a central, natural, black/white couple who sleep together without political fanfare, but do make certain people uncomfortable. It's a film that basically ducks very little, while labouring nothing. And that's what you get for having the courage to take high art seriously on screen. A marvellous, moving, clever and understated film.
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Summary: Lovin Life
Review: I loved the movie "Save the Last Dance"! It was more than just a movie about dancing it was about life struggles that can be true to life. It also brought racial dating to the big screen in a real senario. I would recommend this movie because it is absolutley fantastic and anyone can enjoy it for pure pleasure.
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Summary: I love Save the Last Dance!
Review: This movie kicked...! It was really wonderful, The only problem i found were a few tiny elements that could have been excluded from the plot that were unnesasry, but still- it's a heart warming love story- one that makes you go "why can't I meet someone like that?" in other words, awesome-bet you didn't know Sean Patrick Thomas is about 10 years older then Julia, huh ? You'd never know- this duo is brilliant! buy it!
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Summary: the best movie
Review: this was such a good movie! i loved it so much and saw it twice, but i'm going to buy it! it isn't about what teen movies are usually about, but about everything, love, and abilities
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Summary: Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas Rock
Review: Typically I would say that this movie was a good no brainer, you know the kind of movie that you go to watch to just have a good time and not think, but this one has alot more to it than just that. I have seen this movie twice and went to see it a third time but it was already gone from our theatre. I highly recomend this movie to any one who wants to have fun watching a movie. It is funny(actually hilarious) and yet still has that gut shot to it. It touches on the racial thing very well. The music was awesome and I really loved the dancing in it. Without sounding too cheesy I would have to say that this movie will make you dare to dream:)
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