Julia Stiles throws away the ballet shoes and gets jiggy with Sean Patrick Thomas in this story of teenage romance set on the dance floor.

Story

Julia Stiles is Sara, a serious high schooler whose dreams of becoming a professional ballerina died with her mother in a car accident. She's shipped off from New England to live with her sloppy jazz-musician dad in Chicago's South Side and starts at a school where she's one of only a few white kids. She learns how to adapt by getting into the hip-hop…

Can a suburban white chick who lives for ballet find love with an inner-city black dude who dances to a hip-hop beat? Can Hollywood find the nerve to drag out yet another update of Romeo and Juliet? The answer to both questions is, You better believe it. The alternative would be fresh thinking, and this co-production by Paramount and MTV Films saved its inspiration for the casting.

Julia Stiles (State and Main) would make a Juliet to die for in any age. As Sara from the Illinois…