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Actors: Kelly Bishop, Jane Brucker, Thomas Cannold, Max Cantor, Charles 'Honi' Coles Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 105 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: December 9, 2003 Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1987 Studio: Lions Gate
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An innocent young girl is introduced to the sensuality of dance when she meets the dance instructor at her resort hotel. Genre: Musicals Rating: PG13 Release Date: 9-DEC-2003 Media Type: DVD
As with Grease 1978 and Footloose 1984 before it, Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp. That very campiness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--it does take place in an era the early '60s when it would have. Frances "Baby" Houseman Jennifer Grey, daughter of ageless hoofer Joel Grey has been vacationing in the Catskills with her family for many years. Uneventfully. One summer, she falls under the sway as it were of dance instructor Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze. Baby is a pampered pup, but Johnny is a man of the world. Baby's father, Jake Law and Order's Jerry Orbach, can't see the basic decency in greaser Johnny that she can. It should come as no surprise to find that Baby, who can be as immature as her name, learns more about love and life--and dancing--from free-spirited Johnny than traditionalist Jake.
Dirty Dancing spawned two successful soundtracks, a short-lived TV series, and a stage musical. It may be predictable, but Grey and Swayze have chemistry, charisma, and all the right moves. It's a sometimes silly movie with occasionally mind-boggling dialogue--"No one puts Baby in a corner!"--that nonetheless carries an underlying message about tolerance and is filled with the kind of exuberant spirit that's hard for even the most cynical to resist. Not that they'd ever admit it. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
