Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition) (2 Discs) (Widescreen) (Restored / Remastered)
- Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
- Director: Emile Ardolino
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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. However, one night Baby hears what sounds like a party going on in the employee's dormitory, and she pokes her head in to discover most of the hotel staff enjoying the sort of close dancing that would get you kicked out of the senior prom in no time flat. Baby is particularly struck by handsome Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dancer in the resort's floor show, and falls head over heels in love, wanting to be near him. When Johnny's dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), finds herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn her steps and take her place; however, Baby's father, Dr. Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings. Dirty Dancing was a surprise box-office hit, and the soundtrack album was an even bigger success, spawning several hit singles and inspiring a top-drawing concert tour featuring several of its artists. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Romance
- Category: Coming-of-Age, Dance Film, Musical Drama, Romantic Drama
- Theme: Dancer's Life, Family Vacations, Fired or Laid-Off, First Love, Opposites Attract, Vacation Romances
- Release Date: May 08, 2007
- Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Language, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Suitable for Teens
- Studio: Lionsgate
- Lead Actors: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston
- Supporting Actors: Wayne Knight, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Paula Trueman, Jesus Fuentes, Miranda Garrison, Jennifer Stahl, Garry Goodrow, Tom Connold, Dorian Sanchez, Alvin Myerovich, Antone Pagan, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop, Lonny Price, Max Cantor, Charles "Honi" Coles, Neal Jones
- Director: Emile Ardolino
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-13-0024
- ASIN: B002IGUN4M
- Catalog #: 11362931
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.44 inches length x 5.51 inches width x 0.56 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.33 pound.
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Featuring Patrick Swayze's heat-seeking pelvis, Jennifer Grey's original nose, and lavish helpings of dance-floor sensuality and coming-of-age nostalgia, Dirty Dancing was one of the great guilty pleasures of the 1980s. A genuine sleeper hit, it became an instant cult classic. For anyone who grew up during the 1980s, the film occupies a niche not far removed from that occupied by such Brat Pack favorites as The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire; seeing it was a sort of rite of passage. When it comes down to it, Dirty Dancing, while not exactly an example of great filmmaking, is a prime example of great entertainment. Like any number of coming-of-age dramas, what it lacks in finesse it makes up for in heart. As effusive and well-meaning as its teenage protagonist, Dirty Dancing is an unabashedly romantic exercise in both the suspension of disbelief and the healing powers of well-choreographed nostalgia. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
