Dirty Dancing

Theatrical Release Date: 1987 08 21 (USA)

UPC: 012236146995

Studio: Lionsgate

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent. Baby doesn't get along with her older sister, Lisa (Jane Brucker), and she's bored to tears by most of the older guests at the resort. However, one night Baby hears what sounds like a party going on in the employee's dormitory, and she pokes her head in to discover most of the hotel staff enjoying the sort of close dancing that would get you kicked out of the senior prom in no time flat. Baby is particularly struck by handsome Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dancer in the resort's floor show, and falls head over heels in love, wanting to be near him. When Johnny's dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), finds herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn her steps and take her place; however, Baby's father, Dr. Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings. Dirty Dancing was a surprise box-office hit, and the soundtrack album was an even bigger success, spawning several hit singles and inspiring a top-drawing concert tour featuring several of its artists. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Original Song – null Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Original Song – null Best Original Song – null Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best First Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Dirty Dancing

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/09/2003

Runtime: 105 Minutes

Rebecca Flint Marx

Featuring Patrick Swayze's heat-seeking pelvis, Jennifer Grey's original nose, and lavish helpings of dance-floor sensuality and coming-of-age nostalgia, Dirty Dancing was one of the great guilty pleasures of the 1980s. A genuine sleeper hit, it became an instant cult classic. For anyone who grew up during the 1980s, the film occupies a niche not far removed from that occupied by such Brat Pack favorites as The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire; seeing it was a sort of rite of passage. When it comes down to it, Dirty Dancing, while not exactly an example of great filmmaking, is a prime example of great entertainment. Like any number of coming-of-age dramas, what it lacks in finesse it makes up for in heart. As effusive and well-meaning as its teenage protagonist, Dirty Dancing is an unabashedly romantic exercise in both the suspension of disbelief and the healing powers of well-choreographed nostalgia. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Emile Ardolino  Director 
Eleanor Bergstein  Screenwriter 
Mitchell Cannold  Executive Producer 
Linda Gottlieb  Producer 
John Morris  Composer (Music Score) 
Steven E. Reuther  Executive Producer 
Patrick Swayze  Actor 
Jennifer Grey  Actor 
Jerry Orbach  Actor 
Cynthia Rhodes  Actor 
Jack Weston  Actor 
Jane Brucker  Actor 
Kelly Bishop  Actor 
Lonny Price  Actor 
Max Cantor  Actor 
Charles "Honi" Coles  Actor 
Neal Jones  Actor 
Tom Connold  Actor 
Tom Drake  Actor 
Heather Lea Gerdes  Actor 
Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow  Actor 
Wayne Knight  Actor 
Paula Trueman  Actor 
Alvin Myerovich  Actor 
Miranda Garrison  Actor 
Garry Goodrow  Actor 
Antone Pagan  Actor 
Jesus Fuentes  Actor 
Dorian Sanchez  Actor 
Jennifer Stahl  Actor 

Country: USA