Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)

More Images

Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)

Production Year: 2001 - Drama - Director: Thomas Carter - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over more

2 offers from £2.76 to £4.98

Overall user rating Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) 51 reviews | Write a review | Add product to list

With 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...
more





Please wait ....
Rate this product:  
 
2 out of 2 offers for Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)   sorted by Price  
Save The Last Dance Dvd [2001] Save The Last Dance Dvd [2001]
Save the Last Dance enjoyed a profitable release in early 2001, with box-office earnings ... more
that exceeded anyone's expectations. Its
performance illustrates the staying power of a
formulaic film that avoids the pitfalls and
clichés that would otherwise r...
£ 2.76 Amazon Marketplace

Postage & PackagingCheck Site.
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...
Amazon Marketplace

10 out of 32 similar offers for Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)  
Display all 32 similar offers for Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)
Save the Last Dance - Save the Last Dance -
Release Date: 2006-04-24, Audio CD, Hollywood
£ 8.98

Postage & Packaging£1.46
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
Save The Last Dance 2 - Save The Last Dance 2 -
Audio CD, Mass Appeal
£ 17.49

Postage & PackagingFree!
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
Save the Last Dance for Me - Save the Last Dance for Me -
Release Date: 2003-02-05, Audio CD, Music Digital
£ 5.99

Postage & Packaging£1.46
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
Save the Last Dance for Me - Save the Last Dance for Me -
Release Date: 2008-03-04, Audio CD, Pegasus
£ 4.99

Postage & Packaging£1.46
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
Save the Last Dance for Me -
Audio CD, Cmr
£ 11.49

Postage & Packaging£1.46
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours...
Save The Last Dance 2 [2006] Save The Last Dance 2 [2006]
Release Date: 2007-02-05, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
£ 3.46

Postage & PackagingCheck Site.
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...
Save the Last Dance - Original Soundtrack Save the Last Dance - Original Soundtrack
Release Date: 2006-04-24, Audio CD, Hollywood
£ 4.88

Postage & PackagingCheck Site.
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...
Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters
Release Date: 2002-02-25, Audio CD, Pulse
£ 2.07

Postage & Packaging£1.24
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...
Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters
Release Date: 2008-03-04, Audio CD, Pegasus
£ 1.42

Postage & Packaging£1.24
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...
Save The Last Dance 2 - Various Save The Last Dance 2 - Various
Audio CD, Mass Appeal
£ 6.99

Postage & PackagingCheck Site.
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 2 working days...

Products you might be interested in
The Beast (Wide Screen)The Beast (Wide Screen)

Production Year: 1975 - Drama - Director: Walerian Borowczyk - Original Language: French - Classification: 18 years and over

 2 reviews

Buy now for only £ 9.53

A Common Thread (aka Brodeuses) (Subtitled)A Common Thread (aka Brodeuses) (Subtitled)

Drama - Director: Eleonore Faucher - Original Language: French - Classification: 12 years and over

This product has not yet been reviewed. Rate it now

Buy now for only £ 6.51

Catherine Cookson Complete Collection DVDCatherine Cookson Complete Collection DVD

Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over

 1 review

Buy now for only £ 34.93

Band Of Brothers (Tin)

Production Year: 2001 - Drama - Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel, Tony To - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over

 7 reviews

Buy now for only £ 17.93

The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection DVDThe BBC TV Shakespeare Collection DVD

Drama - Director: Alvin Rakoff - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over

 1 review

Buy now for only £ 119.99

C.S.I. - Crime Scene Investigation - Vegas - Series 1-5 (Box Set)C.S.I. - Crime Scene Investigation - Vegas - Series 1-5 (Box Set)

Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over

 2 reviews

Buy now for only £ 79.95


Auctions and Classifieds for Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)

Trader Rating Product description Link
Show all offers
eBay.co.uk
618 Ratings
Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) at eBay.co.uk
Buy Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) at eBay, the world's largest personal online trading community.


1-5 of 51 reviews    
> Display all 51 Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) reviews
Dance baby dance
Review of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) by christianfilmcritic

Advantages: Julia Stiles, decent modern soundtrack
Disadvantages: A bit predictable

...So, having bought Save the Last Dance purely because it features Julia Stiles, I was very impressed with every aspect of this film. Save the Last Dance is a modern teenage love story, set against the backdrop of a neighbourhood which regularly sees gangland fighting and racial tension. With such tense subject matter, this film could have easily overly focused on the racial and gangland elements or alternatively fallen down a path of over slushy romance ...
...long. "The making of Save the Last Dance" - This have all the typical elements of a making of feature, with behind the scenes footage and interviews, but for the duration of its 20 minutes does not really discuss any of the elements of the film in depth. "Save the Last Dance: A Retrospective" - Another documentary, but unlike the previous one, this throws more light onto some of the elements of the film, such as the choices of location, the dancing ... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
very helpful

01.04.2006
Ballet Meets Hip Hop and it works
Review of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) by poet831

Advantages: Decent movie with a brilliant soundtrack, some incredible dance scenes!
Disadvantages: Semi-predictable romance and outcome.

This is one of those "feel good" movies about following your dreams which I found very enjoyable, albeit that a lot of the tale was quite predictable. There were a few twists and turns along the way, but I think it is obvious that things will work out in the end. Sara (Julia Stiles) is a budding ballerina, whose dream is to attend Juilliard. At the beginning, she appeared almost selfish ( I felt). Her single mother has worked long and hard to give ...
...opportunity to pursue her dreams, yet Sara (although loving her mother dearly) seems almost brattish when her mother has to work later, on the day that Sara has an audition in New York. Desperately trying to make it to Sara's audition, her mother is in a car accident and dies. Sara had failed the audition anyway, mainly because her anger at her mother's non-appearance interefered with her concentration. After her mother's death, Sara has to go live ... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
very helpful

22.09.2001
Keep on dancing
Review of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) by liz1102

Advantages: Enjoyable movie, with a good cast and good dance scenes
Disadvantages: Somewhat predictable, overuse of steriotypes

The Story: Sara Johnson is an aspiring young ballet dancer, well on her way to making it big. That is, until her mother gets into a car crash on the way to an audition Sara made her mum promise to attend. Distraught from her mum’s death and devastated from her poor audition, Sara is forced to move to Chicago and live with her father. It’s quite a culture shock to Sara and she had trouble fitting in – a lone white face in a predominantly black school, ...
...you’re allowed into class. A friendly face, Chenille, takes Sara under her wing and introduces her to her brother, Derek. Sara may be an established ballet dancer, but she doesn’t know any hip-hop to fit into the local dance scene. Derek befriends Sara and becomes her dance teacher. Their relationship develops due to their love of dance, but they still have a whole host of obstacles to overcome. Opinion: Julia Stiles does an excellent job playing ... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
very helpful

20.04.2007
Dancing in the hood
Review of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) by lula153

Advantages: Good music, great dancing, interesting setting.
Disadvantages: Cheesy script, thin plot.

Save The Last Dance is a classic chick flick . We smuggled it past the boys on our trip to Blockbusters by telling them it was a ‘study of racial tension with some good hip hop music’. And we weren’t wrong, exactly. Teenager Sara (played by Julia Stiles) lives with Mom in a small town and loves ballet. Mom gets killed in a car crash and Sara hangs up her slippers and moves to a scary part of Chicago to live with her estranged father, ...
...the soundtrack which features artists including Snoop Doggy Dog, Ice Cube and Pink. Save The Last Dance is perfect for a girl’s night in. Watch it in male company and you might have to suffer those imaginary sick-bucket noises men seem genetically programmed to make during the shmaltzy bits. ... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
very helpful

13.10.2001
Slammin'
Review of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) by drusilla

Advantages: The music, issues relevant to our time, generally well done film with great acting and characters
Disadvantages: The Romeo & Juliet story is all too common

After her devoted Mother is killed in a car crash, rushing to get to her daughter’s dance audition, Sarah (Julia Stiles – 10 Things I Hate About You) moves away, full of guilt and coming to the decision that she cannot continue to practise ballet without her. She finds herself living with her difficult Father (Terry Kinney – Fly Away Home) in a rough neighbourhood and enrolled in an inner-city school where she is practically the only white girl. ...
...few friends, among them, Chenille (Kerry Washington) and her brother Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas – Cruel Intentions). After going to a club one night, he offers to teach Sarah how to dance hip-hop, opening her up to a whole new dance culture. Their united love of dance pushes them together and they gradually become more than just close friends. Derek even persuades Sarah to follow her dream, providing the motivation and support she needs for her to ... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
very helpful

23.09.2001


Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)

Main specs

Actor(s): Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington, Terry Kinney, Bianca Lawson, Vince Green, Fredro Starr

Director(s): Thomas Carter

Genre: Drama

Classification: 12 years and over

Production Year: 2001

Running Time: 1 hour 48 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: 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.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES

Release date: 05/11/2001

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: PHE 8101

Editor: Peter E. Berger

Barcode: 5014437810137

Production Designer: Paul Eads

Screenwriter: Cheryl Edwards, Duane Adler

Composer: Mark Isham

Director of Photography: Robbie Greenberg

Producer: Robert W. Cort, David Madden

Costume Designer: Sandra Hernandez

Languages

Main Language: English

Dubbed Language: Czech, German

Subtitle Language: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish

Hearing Impaired Language: English

DVD Description

With 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.

Technical information

Special Features: Commentary With Director Thomas Carter, Deleted Scenes, Making Of Featurette, Interviews, Music Video, Theatrical Trailer

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround

Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English German
Dolby Surround Czech

Professional reviews

Review: "...SAVE THE LAST DANCE teaches that you should never give up your dreams and that love is all you need..." (Entertainment Weekly, p.63, 19/01/2001)

"...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..." (Los Angeles Times, p.F1, 12/01/2001)

"...[The film has] smart performances and pulls off the rare trick of tackling some thorny racial issues without becoming blandly moralistic..." (Total Film, p.85, 01/04/2001)

"...[Stiles'] performance, and her dancing, blossom in a pleasant, spirited way....Thomas projects a potently attractive self-confidence..." (Variety, p.37-8, 08/01/2001)

Ciao

Listed on Ciao since : 06/04/2001

Compare Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen) to other similar Drama

similar by Price
(up to 5 GBP)
similar by Classification
(12 years and over)
similar by Production Year
(2001)
(*) Reviews by Ciao members

Gift ideas

Similar products and search queries by other users


Save Screen, Save The Screen, Save Last Screen, Save Dance Screen, Save Wide Screen, Save The Last Screen, Save The Dance Screen, Save The Wide Screen, Save Last Dance Screen, Save Last Wide Screen, Save Dance Wide Screen, Save The Last Dance Screen, Save The Last Wide Screen, Save The Dance Wide Screen, Save Last Dance Wide Screen



Are you the manufacturer / provider of Save The Last Dance (Wide Screen)? Click here