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Dirty Dancing

1987

Emile Ardolino

Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes ...

6.1

75,419

Romance. Drama Summer of 1963. 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A wonderfully corny story, performed exuberantly by Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"An engaging pop-movie romance of somewhat more substance than one usually finds in summer movies designed for the young."
		Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual."
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"This is a shapely film, considered and concise. And if its rhetorical slickness eventually covers up its emotional core, that slickness has a pleasure of its own."
		David Edelstein Rolling Stone	"For those supple, shapely numbers – when Grey spins with Swayze, and blooms – I’d forgive anything."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie turns out to be a tired and relentlessly predictable story of love between kids from different backgrounds (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Caroline Westbrook Empire	"Endlessly quotable, strangely fascinating and immensely charming, there's a reason that this retains an evergreen appeal (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The purest spirit of the 1980s is distilled in this amiable film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sue Heal Radio Times	"This feel-good dance movie works a curious, charismatic magic (...) The casting is perfect (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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