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A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent. Baby doesn't get along with her older sister, Lisa (Jane Brucker), and she's bored to tears by most of the older guests at the resort.
Aug 21, 1987 Wide
Aug 19, 1997
Vestron Pictures
All Critics (44) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (15) | DVD (24)
While the music on the soundtrack is predictably overloud, the period detail is refreshingly soft-pedaled.
The dance finale between Gray and Swayze, although an obvious crowd-pleaser, is performed to a contemporary song clearly intended for the charts, which blows the period feel right off the dance floor.
Good production values, some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Grey make the film more than watchable.
Dirty Dancing works best when it's most direct and unpretentious.
The movie plays like one long, sad, compromise; it places packaging ahead of ambition.
Turned out to be one of those films that had something for everyone.
A hip-shaking guilty pleasure.
Guilty pleasure: Fluffy, schmaltzy and predicatble, this coming of age tale, set at a turing point of American culture, is extremely enjoyable due to erotic dancing and Oscar-winning tunes (just disregard the stereotypes and cliches).
Teenage titillation for girls, circa 1963.
Against all odds on the night of the Event, she steps up and shows the world that Baby can dance and only pictures this awful gross that much money.
An animated rendering of its characters is virtually the only thing preventing the formulaic Dirty Dancing from being another one of Disney's crappy romances.
The purest spirit of the 1980s is distilled in this amiable film.
Endlessly quotable, strangely fascinating and immensely charming.
The film's easy charm, infectious soundtrack and tidy choreography should still win over new fans as well as old.
Trend setting musical with Swayze and Grey at their peaks.
Abysmal pre-teen trash
If someone sang the lyrics, "I've had the time of my life, and I've never felt this way before", and the first thing that came to mind was something completely unrelated to this film, namely the fairly recent Black Eyed Peas song "The Time (Dirty Bit)", then first of all, I pity you, because that means you obviously
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
One of the oldest and most loved girly movies of all time that I have never been ashamed to say I love. The acting is terrible, the special effects have holes in them and the story line is sporadically poor but the soundtrack and simplicity of the instant love between Baby and Johnny is what every 14 year old girl
August 25, 2011Super Reviewer
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