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Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American romantic drama dance film produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help the main character, played by Stiles, train for a dance audition. A direct-to-video sequel, Save the Last Dance 2, was released in 2006.
Sara Johnson, a promising dancer in high school, hopes to be admitted to study at Julliard School and invites her mother to attend the audition. She fails the audition and soon thereafter learns that her mother has been involved in a fatal vehicular accident en route, in her haste, to the audition.
After her mother's death, Sara is wracked by guilt and gives up on ballet. She moves in with her estranged father and changes schools. At her new high school, Sara is one of a handful of white students but quickly befriends Chenille, a single teen mother who is having relationship problems. Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called STEPPS, where she has her first experience of dancing to hip hop rhythms. At STEPPS, Sara meets Derek, Chenille's brother and a promising student with dreams of ultimately attending Georgetown Medical School; he dedicates himself to helping her develop her talent. As they become closer, Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, Sara confides in him all about her mother and her dreams. Later, they return to the club and amaze others with their dancing. Having already achieved his dream of being accepted at Georgetown University for college, Derek convinces her that she needs to do what she wants, and to follow her dreams, but she needs to get back into dance shape.
Save The Last Dance - Trailer
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Save the Last Dance 2001 Romance Movie - Stars: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington
Sara wants to be a ballerina, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. She moves in with her father, who she has not seen for a long time. He lives on the other side of town, in a predominantly Black neighborhood. She gets transferred to a new school where she is one of the few White students there. She becomes friends with Chenille, and later, falls in love with Chenille's brother, Derek.
Keywords: african-american, arrest, audition, ballet, ballet-dancing, ballet-shoes, basketball, brother-sister-relationship, bruise, car-crash
Sara: You know Snook, you talk a lot of shit for someone who never says anything.
Sara: You know what? Derek and I like each other and if you have a problem with that, then screw you.
[after Sara and Nikki's fight]::Nikki: It ain't over, bitch.::Sara: I don't even know why it started, bitch.
[about Malakai]::Sara: So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him? That makes perfect sense. I understand.::Derek: He's my friend, Sara. You don't have to understand.
Derek: You can do it. Sara, you were born to do it.
Chenille: And this is Diggy. She thinks she's down.::Diggy: Excuse me? I am down, okay?
Derek: "Stepps" ain't no square dance.::Sara: That's okay, I'll dance in circles, probably around you.
Sara: There's only one world, Chenille.::Chenille: That's what they teach you. We know different.
Chenille: They call him Snookie because Fool was taken.
Chenille: Too many little boys thinkin' they thugs.
You watch me, whike I'm watching
But you act like, it ain't nothing
The way that you're moving
I feel right into your grooving
I'm just about to prove it
'Cause only you can get in, I know you can, for free
If they can take it, I know that's on your own, baby
But you'll be coming home with me
I know you catch a lot of hearts, baby
Got the lining up tonight
You got them all revolving round and round
You're like a thousands satellites
Now they're falling hard
Like a house of cards
They blow away like [?]
I know the way the light is over dancing
Gonna save the last dance, save the last dance, for me
[Instrumental]