Dirty Dancing

United States

1987

100 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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CAST Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Wayne Knight, Cynthia Rhodes

In the 1960s, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner (Johnny is not the father). She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl’s life. He then learns what Baby has been up to… —IMDb

Director

Emile Ardolino

Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 in Maspeth, New York – November 20, 1993) was an American film director, choreographer, and producer, best known for his films Dirty Dancing (1987) and Sister Act (1992).

Emile Ardolino, son of Italian immigrants Emilio and Ester Ardolino, was born in a neighborhood of Queens. His father – who at the time of Emile’s birth was 54 years old – died in 1949, when Emile was 6 years old.

He began his career as an actor in off-Broadway productions, but soon moved to the production side of the business. In 1967, he founded Compton-Ardolino Films with Gardner Compton. In the 1970s and 1980s Ardolino worked for PBS; his profiles of dancers and choreographers for their Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center series won him a total of 17 Emmy Award nominations. He actually won the Emmy three times.

Ardolino won an Academy Award for Best Documentary for the 1983 movie He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’. He found commercial success with the 1987 sleeper… read more

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Douglas Reese

17Apr12

There's one sequence that BURNS with eroticism that the film otherwise forgets to have. When they get on the floor lip-syncing "baaaaaabby" to one another? Holy hell. Why couldn't the film be as sexy as that elsewhere?!

Konrad Szlendak

12Jan12

No man, actually the music is the only highlight here... too baaad brilliant 60's soul got mixed up with cheesy 80's synth pop, that kills it in my opinion... and this corny speech of Swayze in the finale is worse even than Fonda's church speech in "The Wild Angels"... but if you're 12 you might as well enjoy it!