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Save the Last Dance

2001 · Movie · 112 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer54%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic53/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American dance film, directed by Thomas Carter. It stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles' character train for a Juilliard School dance audition. It was produced by MTV Films.

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Genres
Romance / Music / Drama / Crime
Original language
English

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