Save the Last Dance (Widescreen)

this was also for my fg she loves watching dancing movies with her family and girl friends all most every week

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.

This movie, in my opinion, was boring. It had a lot of trash talk, no really good dancing, and a predictable ending. Julia Stiles was dull, but Sean Patrick Thomas was good, so if you like him watch it.