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Summary: A GREAT DRAMA
Review: This is a great tragedy/ awesome movie. I loved it. This is definitely a buyer people.
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Summary: Saving the best til last....
Review: This is one of the best movies I've ever seen....no in fact this is my 2nd best after Sister Act 2 (yeah that's old, but I don't care!) This movie is not one of those predictable mushy romance movies. It's real in every sense of the word. Yes it does have romance but of a different kind. This movie deals with teenagers and what they have to deal with in a realsitic setting. A white girl in a black neighbourhood is not an easy situation. Then on top of that her and a INTELLIGENT BLACK MALE fall in love. This girl also has a gift in dancing but in ballet. So not only is she trying to fit in a literally all-black community but she also has to defend her relationship with her friend's brother and adapt to the hip hop dance culture. This movie deals with these issues in such a great realsitic way and I'll recommend anyone to buy it. The fusion of the classical and hip hop culture is amazing and the cast plays their roles so well. Also with the DVD is the usual extras. It has the making of the film and music video (which is very interesting), the music video itself, interviews with cast and crew members, film trailer and deleted secnes. Trust me when I say get this, you will not regret it one bit. Peace
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Summary: TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM...
Review: This is a well acted, somewhat sanitized and idealized story of a talented teenage 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 which 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, inner city 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 Julliard 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: A Great Interracial Film
Review: i feel shallow, because I cried at one point during this movie. But it was at a non-shallow part, so maybe I shouldn't feel so shallow. ANYWAY--the first time I saw this movie, I was just blown away by it (and i mean that in the least-corniest way possible). I loved to watch the dance sequences in this movie. They totally rocked!!! Especially Sara's dance at the end. I loved watching the relationship between Sara and Derek unfold, and I think it had a great message. Derek is one of the nicest guys I've ever seen in a movie. I could've died when Sara got mad at him in one scene of the movie and took him for granted. Anyway, I would totally recommend this movie to ANYbody! It's really worth your time!
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Summary: Okay
Review: Save the Last Dance could have been better I actually only saw it because my friends made me and were saying you will love it and so I went to see it and I didn't hate it I just think that it could have been better. The storyline was good it was sort of a star crossed lovers story but this movie had dancing in it and if a movie is going to have dance scenes in it all I ask is that they be good dances almost every dance scene wasn't very good and these people thought that we were supposed to be spellbound by someone dancing ballet to rap music. I would recommend this to people who really enjoyed movies such as Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage, and Honey. If you don't like dancing movies then don't watch this. I hope that this review has helped you!
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS THE BOMB!
Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE! its romantic,sexy,sweet,and very dynamic.
the dance moves are awesome,the music is ridiculous! number 1 all the way!
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Summary: Okay, not the best
Review: This movie was not as good as I anticipated it would be. The plot had potential, but the fact that none of the actors in the movie can really dance pretty much watered it down for me. It's not possible to relate to Julia Stiles as an aspiring ballerina when she can't even dance en pointe(and it SHOWS). They could have at least tried to make the splicing between her and her dancing double more smooth. The hip-hop dance sequences are mediocre at best. Having multiple storylines going on makes it impossible to ever go deeper into any of them. I look at this movie as pure entertainment, don't watch with any expectations and you will enjoy it at face value.
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Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: 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.
Sara is forced to move in with her clueless musician father, played by Terry Kinney. She moves into a black neighborhood and attends a black school. After her new friends (one of which becomes a main character called Chenille who is played by Kerry Washington) see her show off in gym they invite her to a local dance club called Steps. After acquiring a fake ID and convincing Derek (Sean Patrick Tomas), Chenille's brother that she can dance his style, hip hop. Derek invites her to dance, but she is obviously lost, while Niki, Derek's ex-girlfriend, shows off her flawless moves.
Derek offers to teach Sara how to dance. When she accepts sparks fly, but not just between Sara and Derek, but between Niki and Derek too.
Nobody wants Sara and Derek to be together especially not Malaka, Derek's best friend. While Derek tries to decide what he wants to do, Sara goes after her old dance dreams.
Although there is a lot of dancing there is the controversy of thug life, drive-bys, and explosions.
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Summary: save your money and buy another movie.
Review: Save the last dance was a billed as a powerrful interacial love story set on the south side of Chicago. After watching I wish someone could have saved me from this ridiculous cliché ridden movie.
In the aftermath of her mother's death Save the Last Dance puts its main character a middle class white girl into a ghetto to live with her musician father.(all Musicians live in the ghetto by Hollywood standards) The movie then shows her adjusting to life at the public high school full of sterotype black characters such as the teenage mom best friend and the top of his class troubled black male who falls for her.oh yeah, there's the subplot about the black guy's freind trying to seduce him "back to the streets" and another silly subplot about interracial dating. These subplots take our minds off the shallow main plot: She wants to go juliard but is to traumatized to dance becaue her mother died on the way to the auditon. With the support of her black boyfriend she musters up enough strength to live her dream. Bleech! I thought I was watching an ABC afterschool special instead of a movie. Julia Stiles does her best with this racist ridculous material but it's just too cheesy to work with. This film meant to enlighten its teen audience about interracial dating is worthy of Shirley Temple and Al Jolson's tapdance sequences and Sidney Potier's character in the Blackboard Jungle.
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Summary: Jive
Review: This movie was actually pretty good. The story was a bit of a cliche but I enjoyed it. Basically 'tis about a girl-a dancer who's mother dies, and along with the death of her mother, the death of danceing. She goes to live with her father in N.Y. where the new school she attends are mainly african american. She finds herself with new ways of living life with new people. She discovers hip-hop and finds her dancing spirit again. It is a love story and a story of believing. It's wonderful.
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