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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Eleanor Bergstein (written by)
Release Date:
21 August 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
Have The Time Of Your Life more
Plot:
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 9 wins
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5 nominations
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Celebs Express Themselves at P.S. Arts Fair
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 23 November 2009, 2:00 PM, PST)
'Dirty Dancing' Christmas marathon: Pssst, your father's coming.
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 23 November 2009, 10:38 AM, PST)
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 23 November 2009, 2:00 PM, PST)
'Dirty Dancing' Christmas marathon: Pssst, your father's coming.
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 23 November 2009, 10:38 AM, PST)
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Dirty Dancing Coming to Broadway for it's 20th anniversary!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jennifer Grey | ... | Frances 'Baby' Houseman |
 | Patrick Swayze | ... | Johnny Castle |
 | Jerry Orbach | ... | Dr. Jake Houseman |
 | Cynthia Rhodes | ... | Penny Johnson |
| Jack Weston | ... | Max Kellerman |
| Jane Brucker | ... | Lisa Houseman |
 | Kelly Bishop | ... | Marjorie Houseman |
| Lonny Price | ... | Neil Kellerman |
| Max Cantor | ... | Robbie Gould |
| Charles 'Honi' Coles | ... | Tito Suarez (as Charles Honi Coles) |
 | Neal Jones | ... | Billy Kostecki |
| 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow | ... | Magician |
| Wayne Knight | ... | Stan |
| Paula Trueman | ... | Mrs. Schumacher |
| Alvin Myerovich | ... | Mr. Schumacher |
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Runtime:
USA:100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Ireland:12A |
Belgium:KT (original rating) |
South Korea:15 |
UK:15 (original rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-10 |
France:U |
Norway:12 |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:7 |
UK:12A (re-rating) (2004) |
USA:PG-13 |
West Germany:12 |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Canada:14A (Ontario)
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The film was re-released in 1997 solely due to a petition led by late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien in which he asked viewers to send letters calling for the film's re-release. When exhibitors finally agreed, O'Brien joked that he actually didn't like the movie all that much.
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Continuity: When Johnny jumps off the porch to fight the guy who's been taunting him, his belt buckle is buckled. Then, when he lands on the ground and starts fighting, his belt is buckled undone. Then after a punch is thrown it's buckled again.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Radio disc jockey: [on radio] Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby: [voiceover] That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
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Radio disc jockey: [on radio] Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby: [voiceover] That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Im Dunkeln (2004/I)
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Soundtrack:
Wipe Out
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There was talk on the E! Hollywood Special about the Making of Dirty Dancing which still is considered by many women including a dear friend of mine in her fifties to be one of her favorite all time movies. Maybe the music, the dancing, or the melodrama around the plot of Baby Frances becoming a dancing sensation with Johnny Castle. Of course, this film established Jennifer Grey whose biggest role to date was the resentful sister in Ferris Beuller's Day Off. Patrick Swayze is perfectly cast as the heart throb leading man who sweeps baby away literally. Dirty Dancing has it all to become a Broadway or West End smash hit. It has the love story, the music, and most of all lots of dancing. Jennifer and Patrick could revive their roles easily. it is nice to see Jerry Orbach play a doctor instead of a police officer and Kelly Bishop as the mother. It all took place in the Catskills in the sixties where many Jewish families vacationed in the area during their summer vacations. At the end of the film, it is sad to see the hotel owner, Kellerman, be baffled by the next generation. It happened anyway! Most people prefer cruises and traveling through Europe than spending the summer in the Catskills. Those old grand hotels are becoming Indian gaming casinos. Let Broadway bring Dirty Dancing alive and well. After all, they could do it for Footloose and Saturday Night Fever, this should be a no brainer! I know that this film is one of the favorites that you don't get tired of after watching 800 times. There are people that have probably seen this film-a 1,000 times by now. Somehow watching the making and the story behind Dirty Dancing made me long for my childhood days as a thirteen year old. Dirty Dancing may not be the greatest film ever made in the history but its universal appeal still draws crowds and repeated watchers like the 800 club whose members have watched it so many times. I watch it fondly now with all the awkwardness of Baby's first days and her first true love with Patrick Swayze as heart throb, Johnny Castle. Nobody could have imagined this little film as a big hit then with the sixties music, two soundtracks, and even a tour in the late eighties. I hope they bring it to Broadway in a musical. It would work for the audience to be part of a film. No wonder it still attracts kids and even adults particularly women of all ages to watch it over and over again. Well, Australia and London both have had productions of Dirty Dancing. It looks like it will come to Broadway in 2007 just in time for it's 20th anniversary.