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03/01/08
Dirty Dancing (1987)
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Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 29
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Reviews for Dirty Dancing
While the music on the soundtrack is predictably overloud, the period detail is refreshingly soft-pedaled.
02/12/08
Top Critic
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.
02/12/08
Top Critic Good production values, some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Grey make the film more than watchable.
02/12/08
Top Critic 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.
08/07/07
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.
05/01/07
The film’s easy charm, infectious soundtrack and tidy choreography should still win over new fans as well as old.
01/26/06
Latest News for Dirty Dancing
March 07, 2008:
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer
Patrick Swayze, star of such hit films as Dirty Dancing, Ghost, and Road House, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. More...
February 13, 2008:
Total Recall: It's a Dance Dance Revolution
Audiences have been historically dismissive of all the critical contempt, pushing dozens of fancy-footed extravaganzas to the upper reaches of the box-office charts.
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August 22, 2007:
Lionsgate Says: "Nobody Puts Baby on a T-Shirt"
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." It's the most unintentionally hilarious line in 1987's Dirty Dancing, one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of the '80s. As Dirty... More...
August 09, 2006:
Critical Consensus: A Brave New "World," A "Step" Down, And No Screenings for "Pulse" and "Zoom"
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