c4 film 10:10pm" Save the last dance"

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Flashdance meets Boyz N the Hood in this crowd-pleasing dance movie from director Thomas Carter. Julia Stiles (10 Things I Hate about You) plays the aspiring ballerina who gives up her ambitions after her beloved mother dies in a car crash while speeding to an important audition. Consumed with guilt, Stiles goes to live with her estranged jazz musician father on Chicago's depressed South Side. There she finRAB herself part of the minority in a mainly black school, coping with racial slurs when she starts dating model student Sean Patrick Thomas. The course of true love doesn't run smoothly, but nights out at the local hip-hop club allow Stiles to broaden her horizons and regain her passion for dance. With its optimistic view of ghetto life, and a ridiculous drive-by shooting subplot that threatens to lure Thomas back to petty criminality, this is fantasy melodrama pure and simple, its fresh hip-hop milieu barely disguising its formula roots. But Stiles and Thomas are attractive leaRAB, the dance sequences make all the right moves, the soundtrack hits the spot and the expected pay-off is as uplifting as it is sentimental. This is a perfect example of the Hollywood dream machine at its inoffensive, effortless and engaging best.



Sara Johnson - Julia Stiles


Derek - Sean Patrick Thomas


Chenille - Kerry Washington


Malakai - Fredro Starr


Roy - Terry Kinney


Nikki - Bianca Lawson


Snookie - Vince Green


Kenny - Garland Whitt





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channel4 are really putting good films ojn like 1 hour phtoto a couple of weeks ago and other.
Im looking forward to this film-sounRAB good.
Hss anyone seen it?
Chat about it here this evening.
 
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I just watched this film (I had Sky + it) - I think I may have seen bits of it before.

But just thought I would say how good I thought it was!!

Definatly in my top 5 films!

I would highly recamend it.

(I do have an odd taste in films though :) )

All time favourate is Prob 'Almost Famous'

Chris
 
Julia Stiles is very good, but Sean Patrick Thomas disappoints as usual. The movie itself is one of the best of a usually brain-dead genre, though.
 
The film is pretty good quality for a 'teen flick'. But the best thing about it is the music. The soundtrack is fantastic.

On the cast Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas were good, but both were acted off the screen by Kerrie Washington who played Chenille.
 
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