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Save the Last Dance
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It is catalogued under topics including 2000s dance films, 2000s hip-hop films and 2000s teen drama films.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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6.5After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
Cast
- Julia Stiles as Sara Johnson
- Sean Patrick Thomas as Derek Reynolds
- Kerry Washington as Chenille Reynolds
- Fredro Starr as Malakai
- Terry Kinney as Roy Johnson
- Bianca Lawson as Nikki
Themes
- ballet dancer
- musical
- ballet
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
68,792 votes
Metacritic
53/100
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 7 wins & 8 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Thomas Carter
- Screenplay by
- Duane Adler Cheryl Edwards
- Story by
- Duane Adler
- Produced by
- Robert W. Cort David Madden
- Starring
- Julia Stiles Sean Patrick Thomas Kerry Washington Terry Kinney Fredro Starr
- Cinematography
- Robbie Greenberg
- Edited by
- Peter Berger Jeff Canavan Fritz Feick
- Music by
- Mark Isham
- Production companies
- MTV Films Cort/Madden Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- January 12, 2001 ( 2001-01-12 )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $13 million
- Box office
- $131.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 112
- FilmAffinity ID
- 873674
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- publication date
- 2001-03-22
- title
- Save the Last Dance
- review score
- 54%
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Encyclopedic overview
Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American dance film, directed by Thomas Carter. It stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles' character train for a Juilliard School dance audition. It was produced by MTV Films.
Save the Last Dance was released in the United States on January 12, 2001, by Paramount Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $131.5 million on a $13 million budget. A direct-to-video sequel, Save the Last Dance 2, was released in 2006.
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