Save the Last Dance

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Saving the Last Dance is the 2001 American dance film produced by MTV Productions, directed by Thomas Carter and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001. Movie stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage couple in Chicago who work together to help the main character, played by Stiles, rehearses for dance auditions. The live sequel to the video, Save the Last Dance 2 , was released in 2006.

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Plot

Sara Johnson, a promising dancer in a suburban Chicago suburban school, hopes to be admitted to the Juilliard School and invites her mom to attend the audition. He failed to audition and soon learned that his mother was involved in a fatal car accident in his haste to get to the audition.

Sara suffered a sense of guilt and surrendered to ballet. He moved with his father and moved to Chicago urban school. His father is a jazz musician who plays trumpets and usually plays in nightclubs. At her new school Sara was one of a handful of white students but quickly became friends with Chenille, a single teen mom who had relationship problems. Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called STEPPS, where she has her first dancing experience with a hip hop rhythm. At STEPPS, Sara danced with Derek, Chenille's brother and a student with the dream of finally attending Georgetown Medical School. She decides to help Sara develop her dancing skills by incorporating more hip hop into her style. Derek takes a reluctant Sara to Joffrey Ballet and, after that, Sara confides in her about her mother and her dream. Later, they returned to the club and amazed others with their dance. Upon reaching his dream of being accepted at Georgetown University, Derek convinced him to follow his dream of Juilliard. Finally, Sara and Derek started a relationship.

At school, Nikki, Derek's ex-boyfriend who is jealous, fights with Sara. Chenille told Sara that she did not approve of fights but could understand the bitterness because Sara, a white girl, was seen stealing one of the few worthy black men in school. Because of this conversation, Sara broke up with Derek. Meanwhile, Derek is dealing with his friend Malakai, who is very fond of the gang lifestyle that Derek is trying to leave behind. Derek accepts Malakai's plea for support on drive-by for the same time as Sara's audition. Sara's father spoke from heart to heart with her and encouraged her to audition for Juilliard again.

After hearing what Chenille had told Sara, Derek confronted him and admitted the real reason for throwing Nikki out. She confesses what she did wrong and encourages her to be with Sara. Chenille also warned Derek not to support Malakai knowing the consequences and he would miss the chance to attend Georgetown. Derek turned his back on Malakai to attend Sara's audition. He arrived at the crucial point of his performance to offer his moral encouragement and support. After her audition, Sara was accepted and she revived her relationship with Derek. Meanwhile, drive-by became a failure and Malakai was arrested. The film was closed when Sara, Derek, Chenille, and their friends met at STEPPS to celebrate Sara's successful audition.

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Cast

• Julia Stiles as Sara Johnson
• Terry Kinney as Roy Johnson
• Sean Patrick Thomas as Derek Reynolds
• Kerry Washington as Chenille Reynolds
• Fredro Starr as Malakai
• Bianca Lawson as Nikki
• Vince Green as Snookie
• Garland Whitt as Kenny

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Box office and reception

The film debuted at # 1 at the North American box office earning $ 27.5 million in its opening weekend. Even though the film had a 44% decline in next weekend's revenue, it was still enough to keep the movie at the top for another week. It grossed $ 91,057,006 in the US alone and $ 131.7 million worldwide.

Save the Last Dance won several awards, mainly:

• 2001 MTV Movie Awards, winning the "Best Kiss" category for Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas, who also won "Breakthrough Male Performance"; and was nominated for "Best Female Performance" for Julia Stiles and "Best Dance Sequence" for a scene in hip hop club
• 2001 Teen Choice Awards, winning in the "Preferred Film: Actress" category for Julia Stiles, "Movie Choice: Breakthrough" for Kerry Washington and "Film of Choice: Fight Scene" for Julia Stiles and Bianca Lawson; and was nominated for "Movie Options: Drama"
• The 2001 Young Hollywood Awards, winning in the "Standout Performance - Male" category for Sean Patrick Thomas
• It was also nominated for the 2002 Black Reel Award in the "TheatricalÃ," Best Supporting Actress category for Kerry Washington and the 2002 Golden Reel Award in the "Best Sound Editing - Music, Film Music Features" category for music editor Michael T. Ryan.

Rotten Tomatoes' gave a 53% approval rating on the film and summarized the critical consensus as: "This teenage romance movie feels like a predictable repetition of other films." Some positive reviews are measured in their enthusiasm, with comments such as, "Look elsewhere for good reality or drama.See here, however, if you are interested in fantasy and fun-making"; "Romantic drama good and neat to hold on weekend"; and "The story is sometimes predictable, but mostly fun." Salon reviewers call the movie "a bad, friendly, and fun movie," observing that "for all its stupid cliches, it offers the basic appeal of teenage movies: the pleasure of watching children become children, acting like they do in between themselves rather than how parents and teachers expect them to act. "Roger Ebert rated three stars out of four, stating that" the setup promises cliches, but the development is smart, the characters are more complicated than we expected, and the endings do not tie them all in a way that predictable. "

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Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was released on December 19, 2000 through Hollywood Records and consists of hip hop and R & B. The soundtrack was a huge success, and made it to several Billboard charts. It peaked at 3 on Billboard 200, 2 in Top R & amp; B/Hip-Hop, 6 in Top Soundtracks, 3 on Top Internet Albums and 2 on the Canada Albums Ladder, and featured two charting singles "Crazy" and "You". Save the Last Dance won gold and platinum on January 29, 2001 and was certified 2x multi-platinum on May 20, 2002. Soundtrack won the American Music Award for Best Soundtrack in 2002.

Allmusic rated the three soundtrack of five stars. RapReviews ranks three and a half out of ten.

1. "Shining Through" (The theme of Save the Last Dance ) - Fredro Starr & amp; Jill Scott
2. "You" - Lucy Pearl feat. Snoop Dogg & amp; Q-Tip
3. "Bonafide" - X-2-C
4. "Crazy" - K-Ci & amp; JoJo
5. "You Make Me Sick" - Pink
6. "U Know What It Is" - Donell Jones
7. "Move It Slow" - Kevon Edmonds
8. "The Murder He Wrote" - Chaka Demus & amp; Tang
9. "You Can Do It" - Es Cube feat. Mack 10 & amp; Ms. Toi
10. "My Window" - Soulbone
11. "Only You" - 112 feat. The Notorious B.I.G.
12. "Get It On Tonite" - Montell Jordan
13. "All or None" - Athena Cage
14. "Shining Through" (The theme of Save the Last Dance ) [Soulshock & amp; Karlin Bonus Track] - Fredro Starr & amp; Jill Scott
15. "What You Want" - Mase

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Also see

• Dirty Dancing , a 1987 film starring Patrick Swayze, a player from Joffrey Ballet
• Dance Flick , a 2009 spoof film starring Damon Wayans, Jr., and Shoshana Bush

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Reference

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External links

• Save Last Dance on IMDb
• Save the Last Dance in the TCM Film Database
• Save Last Dance on AllMovie
• Save Last Dance on Rotten Tomatoes
• Save Last Dance in Mojo Box Office

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