old story done with style

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2001)

I have seen and read the story of a stranger goes to live in a new neighborhood and has to work to be accepted many times. And I've been there, I think almost all people have been there.
But this movie handles a bunch of other issues well. Teenage pregnancy and motherhood, racism, mixed-race couples, lost dreams... It's a fairy tale story of lost dream regained dream, but brought to real life in a real place. We often see stories just like this devolve into cliches, but Save the Last Dance manages to mesh them into lives of people that we can see in our own lives.
The acting was on par with many of my all time favorites, not because the actors were huge names, but because the characters came off the screen as real and not one-sided.
Give this movie a chance.