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Save the Last Dance
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug references
Starring
Julia Stiles,
Sean Patrick Thomas,
Terry Kinney,
and
Fredro Starr
Sara (Stiles) and Derek (Thomas) come from two different worlds, two different cultures. Yet for all their differences, they share one fervent passion - dance! (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Duane Adler (also story)
Cheryl Edwards
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Thomas Carter
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 19, 2001
Video: June 19, 2001
Theatrical: January 12, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Sure, you've seen some of these moves before, but Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Above all, this is a movie where the characters ask the same questions we do: They're as smart about themselves as we are.

70
Film.com
Gemma Files
Breaks virtually no new narrative ground, yet treads the familiar territory it does cover with grace, style, wit and fun.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This is a spirited, dirty dance between the polished inauthenticity of Hollywood romance-musicals and hip-hop's central tenet: keeping it real. It's an intriguing combination, if nothing else.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The story comes full circle in a way that might seem overly schematic did it not have the courage to wear its heart on its sleeve without losing its head.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The most traditional of Hollywood romances, in that it's resolutely about nice people with nice problems.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
While it flirts with "After School Special"-ness, at least has the courage to address racial and cultural cliches with a degree of honesty.

63
Miami Herald
Sara Wildberger
All in all it's a decent, well-put-together romantic drama to hold hands to on the weekend.

60
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
This sweet-tempered retelling of "Romeo and Juliet," which substitutes uplift for tragedy, gives off enough energy and light that the audience wants to believe in it even if society's impacted prejudices continue to say otherwise.

60
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
It's pretty good, really.

60
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Bland but poised.

60
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Carter can't sidestep the script's cliches, so he wisely cuts to the fancy footwork whenever possible.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's about as routine a movie as they come, but it features plenty of endorphin-releasing hip-hop choreography as Derek teaches Sara to get jiggy with it.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This teenage interracial romance runs hot and cold, sweet and silly, with many more fits than starts.
50
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
For all its dumb clichés it offers the basic appeal of teen movies: the pleasure of watching kids be kids, acting as they do among themselves instead of how parents and teachers expect them to act.

50
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Takes its cues from the musical dramas of the '70s, but this otherwise engaging young-adult romance never quite catches Saturday night fever.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The disjointed plotting and afterschool-special dialogue offer scant opportunity for the charismatic leading duo to work up much chemistry.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Thomas' easygoing warmth helps to melt Stiles' icy veneer, and one of Dance's few pleasures is an extended musical segment where she tries to ape his homeboy posturings.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Grounded in bedrock formula and earnestness.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
The result is more like an epic "After School Special" -- preachy, runny and oddly warm.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
An utterly formulaic, teen-oriented romance whose greatest asset is charming leads Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
This wan, formulaic teen movie from ''Metro'' director Thomas Carter is afraid to pump up the volume on its own interracial, hip hop Romeo and Juliet story, lest it challenge even one sedated viewer or disturb the peace.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Filled with too many issues -- along with young motherhood, street gangs, city life, sex, peer pressure, grief and, oh yes, dancing, which is nearly lost in so many poorly written subplots.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Recycles every cliché of the genre to sleep-inducing effect.


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