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Synopsis:
With her dreams of becoming a professional
ballerina decimated by the accidental death of her mother,
Sara Johnson (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 passitonate 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.
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