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Summary: +,-,?(What's hot , not, and strange)
Review: +: Nice dancing moves
+: Julia Stiles is kinda pretty.
+: The story is kind of interesting
-: Some of it screws a few things up.
?: If it's a dancing movie then how does violence come in the picture?
?: How come there is only one sex scene regardless if it's PG-13?
Rating:
Summary: Good!
Review: This movie depends on your tastes. If you liked "Center Stage" this movie is for you. It's a great movie, for teens, if you like dance and hip-hop, this romantic-dance drama is for you!
See it today!
Rating: 
Summary: **Good entertainment for teens and adults alike!**
Review: This is one movie that both adults AND teens will be talking about for hours on end!! The classic story of two teens coming from entirely different worlds and then falling in love, combined with a sweet essence of a dancer's dream and the tragedy of a mother's death, this movie will spark a tear from you at the same time a smile appears upon your face.Sara Johnson is a normal 17-year-old girl with aspiring hopes of being admitted to the Julliard school of Ballet. However, when the tragedy of her mother's death hits home, Sara is forced to move in with her father, whose absence during her childhood still has an effect on her today. She's a white girl in a mostly-black neighborhood and feels out of place until another teen, Chenille befriends her and introduces her know-it-all brother Derek, who soon learns about Sara's dream, and insists on helping her achieve it. A touching story for anyone 13 and up, "Save the Last Dance" is one film that won't be forgotten!
Rating: 
Summary: Modern [Junk]
Review: I thought this film was garbage! They could of just called it "Jungle Fever For Teens" Dont buy this film and I wouldnt let your kids watch it.
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Summary: TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM...
Review: This is a well acted, somewhat sanitized and idealized story of a talented teeage girl who, on the cusp of achieving her dream, loses everything, only to find it again in a way no one would have predicted. It is a story about attaining one's dreams and the process by which they may become a reality. This is a well acted, though predictable, coming of age tale that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. Here, the talented Julia Stiles plays the role of Sara, a teenager who happens to be a talented ballet dancer. Auditioning for the famous Julliard School, while angry at her single parent mother for being late to her audition, she fumbles her audition. She finishes, only to discover that her mother, in her haste to make Sara's audition, died in a tragic car accident on her way. Blaming herself for her mother's death, Sara gives up ballet. Her pleasant life suddenly snatched from her, Sara is forced to go live with her estranged dad, Roy, wonderfully acted by Terry Tinney. A down and out jazz musician who lives on Chicago's tough south side, Roy does the best he can to make up for lost time. Sara, seemingly undaunted by her seamy new surroundings, enters a predominantly black high school, where she is befriended by fellow student, Chanelle, a single mom with a hunky, intelligent brother, Derek, played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who is well cast in the role. Bound for Georgetown University, Derek hopes to one day become a doctor. Through her blossoming relationship with Derek, Sara begins to dance again. It is through his encouragement and nurturing that she regains the confidence to follow her dream and audition once again for Julliard. It is also through his commitment to Sara that Derek finds the courage to tell his gangsta wanna be friend that he wants no further involvement in his friend's nefarious activities, before it is too late for him. Sara's audition is a show stopping dance routine that is the icing on this enjoyable, coming of age film. It is a testament to hope and to the power of love.
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Summary: Can we say dance double!
Review: Hmmm... in Julia Stiles interview at the end she stated that she worked really hard because she didn't want to have a dance double.... and no where in the credits is there credit given for a dance double for Julia Stiles, yet any ballet dancer with modest training can recongnize the fact that it is not Julie dancing on those toe shoes... We go from scenes with her in ballet slippers and bad feet, to scenes with her supposedly in pointe shoes and GREAT feet... wow! How did that happen...
The choreography for Miss Stiles could have been better, but what can a choreographer do when she has to use some one with no formal dance training... the director should have thought twice about casting her.
As for the other aspects of the film... they are the only redeeming qualities... The story line is exceptional and the footage at the club is great... hard to believe it was a set and not an actual club. Kerry Washington did a wonderful job... extremely talented. I hope to see her in more main stream movies. She was the director's best casting decision for the entire movie!
Rating: 
Summary: Wonderfull
Review: I thought it was light, enjoyable, entertaining and relaxing. what movies are all about. its boy meets girl, growing-up, music, dance, romance, race relations, inferiority, making it and a happy ending. Sarah was a girl from the mid-west who was a serious student of ballet. Her mother dies in a car accident on the way to see her perform. Sarah feels guilty, drops dancing and has to go live in the inner city of Chicago with her estranged father. She is now the only white kid in an all black high school. She starts a relationship with a black male student (Sean Patrick Thomas) who is a better dancer than she is but hip hop. Sarah has tons more self-confidence and social skills than any high school girl I can possibly imagine. and her boy friend has got more handle on life than a dozen old wise men. its not realistic and who cares! Both are every likeable and lovable. Sarah (Jula Stiles) is a nice sight to behold with a personality to match. Apparently she has been acting as a child was 21 when the movie was made. I wonder how many viewers will notice the paradox/irony when they see the tenement that Sarah lives in with her father compared to the very nice middle class apartment that Sarah's black girl friend (Chenille Williams) lives in. It is Sarah's black friend who (with hostility) insists black and white are two separate worlds. I couldn't help thinking that the chains that bind her in slavery and second class citizenship exist only in her own mind. I think this is what the different condition of their apartments was partially underscoring. But on the other hand! It looks like the black students have a tough row to hoe to get of the dysfunctional environment they live in; whereas, I feel I am speaking for most viewers whn I say we assume Sarah's journey onward and upward through life will be one enchanted
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Summary: Where's the passion? Not in the dancing...
Review: I like dance movies. In some (but definitely not all) ways, I think film is better than real life for watching dance, because the camera can bring you closer to the performer and capture the full emotional depth of the performance. Unfortunately, the actual dance performances in "Save the Last Dance" (at least the ones by the main character, and especially her climactic dance sequence) were surprisingly flat. I couldn't help but compare the dancing to the much-better White Nights (ASIN 6302862949, sadly not on DVD), Flashdance (ASIN B00005JKG5) or the equally-flawed performances in Fosse (ASIN B00005UQ8F). Of course, in Flashdance, they cheated by having a professional dancer replace Jennifer Beals in the dance sequences, but still, Julia Stiles just doesn't sell the moves, and I kind of wish they had pulled a Flashdance-style substitution for some of the dance sequences. As to the rest of the movie, this was definitely a better-than-average teen flick, though the interracial relationship politcal stuff was a bit heavy handed. (I may be oversensitive on that issue, though, since I'm in an interracial marriage myself.)
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!
Review: Im a Julia Stiles fan and this movie shows how great of an actor she is...The music is great and she does a good job.
She plays a ballerina whose mom dies in a car crash, she moves in with her dad, who lives in the ghetto...where she falls for Derek, a african-american...they have problems, because sehs white and people dont understand...they dance together, etc..good Sat night movie!
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Summary: once is wonderful , twice is terrible
Review: I first went to see this in the cinema and thought that it was quite good it wasn't the best movie that I had ever seen but it was quite enjoyable.But then when it came out on video and I hated it I guess it was because I was able to put it under scrutiny properly and I thought that it was awful.I suppose what really put me off was Julia Stiles she really annoyed me the whole way throughout the movie.
The story was quite good , I'll admit that , it surrounds a girl called Sarah(Stiles) and when her mother dies she has to move in with her estranged father in a black community where she has no friends.She then falls in love with a guy from her school(Sean-Patrick Thomas) who is black and both her friends , his friends and society diapproves.It also has many dance sequences which are very enjoyable,but although many of my friends love this movie I just can't bring myself to like it.
I usually like those kind of movies but it just seemed so unrealistic and that the charachter of sarah was to weak.I wouldn't recommend this movie although many might disagree.
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