I think this movie deserves a 10 rating for its fine treatment of an interracial teen relationship and father daughter relationship.

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2001)

I'm a 48 year old woman who enjoyed watching Save The Last Dance because I thought it portrayed a beautiful relationship between the lead characters. It showed them struggling with maintaining a focus on future goals while living in the ghetto and to the extent that they were successful in doing this, I think the movie shows it is possible to strive for the stars and believe in yourself, even if it seems unlikely your dreams will come true. I think the movie also showed the difficulties in trying to have a relationship that is interracial. The characters grow to love each other, and once they fall in love, the differences in their race no longer matter to them, but, as in the real world, those differences still matter to those around them and they have to come to terms with that fact in order to move on. I think the movie also realistically portrayed ghetto life, in terms of the pressure to belong to a gang and get involved in criminal activity. I also liked the depiction of the relationship between Sara and her father, which starts out being nil and slowly starts to grow.