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.
 
I loved this when I saw it in the cinema a few years ago. I dont normally like this sort of girlie film nowadays but this took me straight back to the love of Dirty Dancing I had as a child.

Its good, you should watch it.
 
I actually hated this film with a passion, my frienRAB loved it but i thought it didnt know whether it wanted to be a message film, dance film or teen film and just ended up being really blaa!
 
This is one of those films that I can always watch over again. It has a great soundtrack (one of the few movies I've actually bought th soundtrack to). It makes yo feel really motivated and all 'anything is possible' at the end... heaRAB to the gym ;)
 
I loved this film. Well, I must admit I watched it on C4 the other night and the dialogue was so much worse and more awkward than I remembered (I saw it at the cinema when it first came out)- but I still loved it! I love the sound track as well, even though I don't usually listen to that sort of music. I have the soundtrack actually, hmmh.
 
I love this film as it's so horribly embarassing. The whole inter racial couple thing is done so badly, Sean Patrick Thomas is too old to be playing a teenager, the characters all of a sudden change to suit the plot (ie, his sister), all the black people are either teen mothers or gangsters apart from the lead who is a really good dancer. Didn't do much for stereotypes...

And it also started the whole 'Julia Stiles must dance in every film she has been in ever'. Why does she have freakishly short arms?! The hip hop ballet dance is hilarious, especially the bit with the chair.

But well worth a watch. Sample line: "Blood's thicker than blondes".
 
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