A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 8 nominations
Artel Great
- Arvel
- (as Artel Jarod Walker)
Storyline
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- TriviaKerry Washington's first major role. She was working as a substitute teacher at the time, and paid so little for the film that she had to return to that job. Consequently she switched to only elementary school positions because high school students would show up to "watch Chenille teach French."
- GoofsJuilliard is misspelled as "Julliard" on the sign announcing auditions.
- Alternate versionsThe DVD features four deleted scenes:
- Record Store: A scene after the first night at Steps. Snook tries to talk a girl and gets shot down. He gives Derek the last copy of a CD. Sara shops for some hip-hop CDs and flirts with Derek.
- Jazz Club: Sara goes to see her father play.
- Chenille's Apartment: Kenny and Chenille argue about their son and talk about their relationship before the baby.
- Playground: Kenny and Chenille talk in a park.
- ConnectionsEdited into Save the Last Dance: Deleted Scenes (2001)
- SoundtracksYou Don't Really Want Some
Written by Anthony President and Ainz Brainz Prasad (as Brainz Dimilo)
Performed by Blackout
Featured review
Cheesy, but great dancing
Unless you like cheesy MTV-style teenage movies of the ilk of Flashdance, this may not be for you. If you do, it's a well-made piece of that easily digestible junk-food genre. For me, it was interesting mostly because of the dancing (fusion of hip-hop and ballet). There's some interesting performances, even if the editing is there to show the dancefloor moves to a perfection that might not have actually been achieved by Julia Stiles. The standard boy-meets-girl, gets-her-to-realise-her-dream-as-a-dancer-stuff is the stuff large buckets of popcorn were made for . . .
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $91,057,006
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $23,444,930
- Jan 14, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $131,706,809
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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