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Movie Description
It's summer, 1963. Baby, 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, and is mesmerized by him as well as his dance style. She soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil - in dance and in love. Academy Awards: Best Song ("(I've Had) The Time of My Life").
Synopsis
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend, Penny, is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get an abortion. This leaves Johnny a solo act -- until Baby agrees to take Penny's place. She has to learn how to dance first, however, and as Johnny teaches her the choreography's sexy, seductive moves, the two fall in love.
But Baby's father believes that Johnny is the creep who got Penny pregnant, and he furiously orders Baby to end the relationship. Baby knows that Johnny's innocent -- and with her feisty idealism and his dance talent, the two will prove to Baby's father that their love is worth fighting for.
Film Notes
Copyright 1987 Vestron Pictures, Inc.
DVD Features:
Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
DTS/ES 6.1 - English
Dolby EX 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Jennifer Grey Interview
Jennifer Grey Screen Test
Jennifer Grey DVD Intro
Audio Commentary - 1. Choreographers, costume and production designers
Interviews - 1. Jennifer Grey, Eleanor Bergstein, Kenny Ortega and Miranda Garrison
Featurette - 1. Director Emile Ardolino
Trivia Track
Exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Groundbreaking Live Action Menus
Remastered Audio
Industry Reviews
"...Nicely bittersweet....A drive and a pulse that give the film real excitement..."
New York Times - p.C3 - Vincent Canby (08/21/1987)
"...Some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Jennifer Grey make the film more than watchable..."
Variety - Jagr. (05/20/1987)
"...Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sexual....Grey and Swayze are tough, thoughtful, lovely actors..."
Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson (08/21/1987)
"[A] slumber-party classic..."
Entertainment Weekly - Whitney Pastorek (04/15/2005)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his '80s classic transcends cynicism to give warm-fuzzies the world over."
Total Film - Jane Crowther (03/01/2007)
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hanks to a fabulous soundtrack and enthusiastic performances, it's still as much fun as ever."
Ultimate DVD - Nikki Baughan (12/01/2007)
Quotations
"The reason people treat me like nothing is because I am nothing." -- Johnny Castle [Patrick Swayze]
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