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
More Than I Expected
Okay, so it won't bring home a little golden guy. . .it's from MTV Films for crying out loud. But who says everything has to? I will say this; this movie actually had a little more substance than what I walked in expecting. I went to the theater on opening night with 5 girlfriends expecting to hear some good music and see some good choreography and scenery of Chicago--a city I dearly love. I got all of that. But I also got a glimpse of broken homes, the dynamic between a father and daughter who don't know each other, friends who've gone by the wayside that you still don't want to let go of, I could say more. Oh, and the thing that really still pisses people off though it's 2001. . .interracial relationships. I'm not saying the plot isn't a little rehashed, but there's not a whole lot that's new out there. No, it's not a great film--I give it a B, but I'd see it again. In fact I did see it again with another set of friends on Saturday night. All in all, I saw this movie with 10 friends of varying sex, age and race and all of us liked it. I think that's a pretty good showing.
- nikita_5952
- Jan 15, 2001
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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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