
(Large hoops, head scarf.honestly, should she be wearing this?)
Julia meets Kerry’s baby and her very sweet, helpful mom before they hit the club, and Kerry gives Julia a makeover that makes me sick with laughter. Julia holds her own with a douchey fake-ID man, and they all go to a club. Ooh, Sean is waiting for his acceptance letter from Georgetown, I forgot. Speaking of important, Kerry is wearing some stunning shiny blue pants whose origins I need to know about. He’s friends with Sean Patrick Thomas, which becomes important later. Q from Moesha is a bad boy who’s back at school, in a “finish school or go to jail” situation. Important life lesson from Kerry: “Don’t put your shit on the floor.”.
(Seriously, she’s a lot nicer than I would be.)
Hot stranger is actually Sean Patrick Thomas, and he plays the brother of Kerry Washington, who is an absolute delight as a teen mom who’s nice to Julia Stiles for seemingly no reason. They’re discussing In Cold Blood in English class, and Julia Stiles shows off that she totes knows the book, but a hot stranger gives a better analysis of the book than she does. Also, she’s seemingly the only white girl enrolled? Julia Stiles is alarmed to see that her new school has metal detectors. Julia Stiles’s long-lost dad, the kind of guy who wears a fedora to remeet his estranged daughter, picks her up at the train station, and it’s instantly clear they’re not besties. Oh, yeah, and Julia Stiles screws up the audition. Sad-flashback time: Julia Stiles’s mom dies in a car crash while Julia’s auditioning for Juilliard. Julia stiles movies dance movie#
Netflix deems this movie a 96% match for me.
Care to guess which kind I am? Okay, fine, twist my arm, I’ll tell you: I’m the latter, and one of my favorite rom-coms to throw on in my high-school-loser era was Save the Last Dance, starring Julia Stiles as a wannabe ballerina who moves to Chicago’s South Side and.learns to culturally appropriate? It’s currently on Netflix, so let’s dive in, shall we? In this life, there are run-of-the-mill rom-com fans, and then there are “stayed home every Saturday night of high school watching rom-coms, resulting in an unhealthy attachment to the genre” fans.