Product Information
Sara Johnson is forced to move to Chicago following the death of her mother. There she finds life very different to the one she left behind in the quiet Midwestern town. Things look up for Sarah when she meets Derek, who shares her passion for dancing.Product Identifiers
ProducerDavid Madden, Robert W. Cort
EAN5014437810137
eBay Product ID (ePID)3947781
Product Key Features
ActorBianca Lawson, Terry Kinney, Kerry Washington, Fredro Starr, Julia Stiles, Vince Green, Sean Patrick Thomas
Film/TV TitleSave the Last Dance
DirectorThomas Carter
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Romanian\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time108 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2001
FormatDVD
FeaturesCommentary With Director Thomas Carter\Deleted Scenes\Making Of Featurette\Interviews\Music Video\Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerMark Isham
Production DesignerPaul Eads
Additional InformationWith her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina decimated by the accidental death of her mother, Sara Johnson (Julia Stiles) is forced to move from her quiet Midwestern town to her father's ghetto apartment on the south side of Chicago. The stark urban environment's contrast of race and class compound Sara's loss and her misplaced guilt, which are both exacerbated by the fact that her mother had been en route to her dance performance at the time of her death. But when she meets Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), a popular black student with a passion for hip hop and a future brighter than his troubled past, her repressed ambition and sorrow are released through a revitalized interest in the cathartic and expressive power of dance. Their friendship and mutual interest in dancing inexorably lead to a passionate romance that raises the sadly typical, bigoted resistance from Sara's white father and Derek's black friends. Widely hailed by critics for being as sophisticated and intelligent as it is viscerally passionate, SAVE THE LAST DANCE enjoyed the top of the American box office in its first weekend in release, playing to sold out shows across the country, a landslide affirmation that Sara and Derek are not as alone as they think.
ReviewsTotal Film - ...[The film has] smart performances and pulls off the rare trick of tackling some thorny racial issues without becoming blandly moralistic..., Los Angeles Times - ...Well-crafted and smoothly paced, SAVE THE LAST DANCE benefits most strongly from its predominately youthful cast....Lawson and the most appealing Washington make impressions as vivid as those of Stiles and Thomas..., Variety - ...[Stiles'] performance, and her dancing, blossom in a pleasant, spirited way....Thomas projects a potently attractive self-confidence..., Entertainment Weekly - ...SAVE THE LAST DANCE teaches that you should never give up your dreams and that love is all you need...
ScreenwriterCheryl Edwards, Duane Adler
Costume DesignerSandra Hernandez
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Czech
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Surround
EditorPeter E. Berger
Movie/TV TitleSave The Last Dance
Director of PhotographyRobbie Greenberg