Dirty Dancing

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Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
  • Starring: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze
  • Directed by: Emile Ardolino
  • Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
  • Release year: 1987
  • Studio: Lionsgate
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Synopsis: Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze
Supporting actors: Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop, Lonny Price, Max Cantor, Charles 'Honi' Coles, Neal Jones, 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow, Wayne Knight, Paula Trueman, Alvin Myerovich, Miranda Garrison, Garry Goodrow, Antone Pagan, Thomas Cannold, M.R. Fletcher, Jesus Fuentes, Heather Lea Gerdes
Directed by: Emile Ardolino
Genre: Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
Captions and Subtitles: Details
Release year: 1987
Studio: Lionsgate
ASIN: B000IDEORY (Rental) and B000IDGBWU (Purchase)
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  • US Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1987
  • Production Company: Great American Films Limited Partnership, Vestron Pictures
  • USA Box Office: $ 63 Million
  • Worldwide Box Office: $ 170 Million
  • Filming Locations: Appalachian region, Virginia, USA | Asheville, North Carolina, USA | Grove Park Inn - 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina, USA | Lake Lure, North Carolina, USA | Lure Woods, Lake Lure, North Carolina, USA

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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“ I can watch this movie over and over again and I love it. ” Randi T. Grogan-Fader  |  178 reviewers made a similar statement
“ The extra Dvd with the bonus features are wonderful. ” Vickie R. Armstrong  |  38 reviewers made a similar statement
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115 of 118 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best movie from the 80s September 25, 2002
By Deanna
Format:DVD
In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey stars as Frances "Baby" Houseman, a girl who goes on vacation to the Catskills with her father, mother and sister in the summer of 1963. She meets the handsome dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), who works at the lodge where they're staying, and is smitten with him. When she volunteers to fill in for Johnny's dance partner, Baby experiences love and life firsthand from the free-spirited Johnny.

The DVD version of this movie is terrific. The clarity is amazing, the sound is crisp & clear and the bonuses are wonderful. With the bonus features, you get commentary from the movie's creator, a behind-the-scenes featurette (with no audio), the videos for "She's Like the Wind," "I've Had the Time of My Life" & "Hungry Eyes," biographies about the cast & crew (Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston, the director, the producer, the writer and the choreographer), a short "Reliving the 60s" documentary, the theatrical trailer and a concert featuring the music from the movie.

If you love Dirty Dancing, I highly recommended getting this DVD. It would be a great addition to add to your collection!

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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars If you own the Collectors, do you want this one? Read on. April 15, 2006
By Burketop VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
I give this movie and the DVD package 4 stars. The music was powerful and the love story between Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze was a powerful one and the acting performances by all involved were completely believable.

Now for the DVD itself. If you own the Collectors Edition and you're wondering whether or not you would want this version there should be only one thing to take into account....how good is your home theatre system?

If you have a 5.1-7.1 home theatre system then I would highly recommend buying this version, the DTS:ES 6.1 discreet audio track is more visceral than the Dolby Digital 5.1EX track and with almost twice the bit rate you're getting nearly twice the information. This means that you're listening to something that's more accurately reproducing the original studio masters of the audio with less compression than the Dolby track.

If you already own the collectors edition and you're watching your DVDs through either just your television, a two channel stereo or with a receiver that only supports Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro Logic/Pro Logic II then I would say to be sated with the version you already have. There is not much more that this DVD covers with the interviews and features that, after watching the collectors edition, you would care to see.
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75 of 82 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE January 6, 2000
By R. Penola
Format:VHS Tape
It is awfully hard not to get swept up into the nostalgic heat and sentiment of this unabashedly, and well-done, teen romance. It is, by turns, sexy, funny, melodramatic, jamming (what with that soundtrack chock full of some of the best pop hits of the 60s mixed with a few great new songs) and campy. Yet the overriding feeling of melancholy and wistfulness, portrayed with real talent by Jennifer Grey, as the perfect Baby, transforms this movie into something lasting, something to really love. Cynthia Rhodes is absolutely riveting -- as usual -- in the second female lead; she is a spectacular dancer and electrifying whenever she is on the screen. The aching feeling of first true love/lust/whatever, here directed at hunky Patrick Swayze, who is by the way an excellent dancer, comes to full flower at a Poconos resort. As all manner of soapy subplots move through their predictable paces, we are treated to the transformation of our young heroine and any number of delightful musical numbers, capped off by the irresistably romantic Time Of My Life -- that feeling of moving through a romance that has somehow changed your life is captured with a rare sweetness, and it stays with you.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great romantic schlock, only watch it if you love the genre...
The story is the oft repeated over-protected little rich Daddy's girl falls for "bad" boy, never had a chance because he never knew really good people Johnny. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great coming of age story
Classic coming of age story. Great music and dancing. Well acted. Just the right mix of drama and humor. Definitely a "chick" flic but one that everyone should see :-)
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I have always loved this movie and I rarely watch any kind of tv or movies. When I seen I could watch it on my kindle I took advantage of it on some down time.
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