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Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved August 28, 2020. Ebert, Roger (January 12, 2001). "Save The Last Dance movie review (2001)". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. a b Morris, Wesley (January 12, 2001). " 'Dance' Tries Hard to Be Hip and Fails Miserably". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022.Caro, Mark (January 24, 2001). "Save the Last Dance". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 24, 2001 . Retrieved August 30, 2022– via Zap2It.com.

The film was released on DVD and VHS on June 19, 2001. [7] It was re-released on DVD on January 24, 2017. [8] Reception [ edit ] We are sure Stiles worked really hard to learn the choreography for this scene and she deserves to be commended for her efforts—especially since the actress had no previous dance experience prior to the film and still did most of the dancing herself. But let’s be honest: If it wasn’t part of a movie, there’s no way that dance number would have held up in real life and gotten her accepted into one of the most prestigious dance schools in the world. After all, the famous NYC school has an extremely low acceptance rate of 8%, beating out a majority of Ivy League Schools. That figure makes the fine arts school harder to get into than Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania." [18] Awards and nominations [ edit ] AwardJury for NYC Web Series Festival". NYC Web Fest. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. American Music Awards - 2002 | Winners & Nominees". American Music Awards . Retrieved August 22, 2020. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 12, 2003 . Retrieved March 26, 2022.

Taylor, Charles (January 12, 2001). "Save the Last Dance (review)". Salon. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009 . Retrieved December 30, 2007. Chenille invites Sara to a dance club called Stepps, where the latter has her first experience dancing to hip hop rhythms. At Stepps, Sara dances with Derek, Chenille's brother and a student with dreams of attending Georgetown University to become a pediatrician. Derek decides to help Sara develop her dancing skills by incorporating more hip hop into her style. Seventeen-year-old Sara Johnson, a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to Juilliard School and implores her mother to attend the audition. She fails the audition and soon learns that her mother was killed in a car accident in her haste to get to it. Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, she confides in him about her mother and her dreams. Later, they return to the club and amaze others with their dancing. While performing, Derek's ex-girlfriend Nikki interrupts them and begins dancing with Derek, making Sara retreat to the bar.Hobbs, John (February 11, 2002). "Sound editors tap noms for Golden Reel Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. Rodriguez, Karla (January 12, 2021). "How This One 'Save the Last Dance' Scene Lives on In Meme Infamy". Complex Magazine on Yahoo.com . Retrieved October 21, 2023. Writing for the Chicago Tribune, Mark Caro wrote, "On paper the movie is full of cliches recently explored elsewhere...Yet in this case the outline is not the story; the people who inhabit it are," and in this way, " Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition." [14] Teen Choice Awards". Hollywood.com. August 12, 2001. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. ARIA End of Year Albums Chart 2001". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved August 28, 2020.

Derek arrives at a crucial point in Sara's performance to offer her encouragement and moral support. Afterward, Sara is accepted into Juilliard and she rekindles her relationship with Derek. Meanwhile, the drive-by is botched and Malakai is arrested. The film closes as Sara, Derek, Chenille, and their friends meet at Stepps to celebrate Sara's successful audition. In a three-star review, Roger Ebert said that despite the film's clichéd story and romance, "the development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect, and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way." [12] Charles Taylor of Salon wrote, "for all its dumb clichés it offers the basic appeal of teen movies: the pleasure of watching kids be kids, acting as they do among themselves instead of how parents and teachers expect them to act." [13] Travers, Peter (January 12, 2001). "Save the Last Dance". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 15, 2022. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (January 29, 2001). "Save the Last Dance". EW.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022. Reinstein, Mara (June 2, 2022). "The Short-Lived Reign of MTV's Best Kiss Award". The Ringer. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022 . Retrieved August 15, 2022.Tribbey, Ralph (March 30, 2001). "Paramount Delivers 'Last Dance' on DVD". hive4media.com. Archived from the original on April 20, 2001 . Retrieved September 11, 2019. Canada's Top 200 R&B; albums of 2001". Jam!. January 8, 2002. Archived from the original on November 22, 2002 . Retrieved January 22, 2023. Canada's Top 200 R&B; albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on October 12, 2003 . Retrieved March 27, 2022.