Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical and romance film directed by Emile Ardolino. The film starred Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, and Jerry Orbach.

Filmed at Mountain Lake in Virginia and at Lake Lure in North Carolina (although the film was set in Upstate New York), Dirty Dancing was distributed by Vestron Pictures. The movie became a major hit after it was released, despite being a low-budget film with no major stars (at the time). Its soundtrack is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, and it spawned several hit singles, including "She's Like the Wind," written and sung by Swayze; "Hungry Eyes," sung by Eric Carmen; and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", composed by Franke Previte and sung by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, which won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

Taglines:

Have the time of your life.
First dance. First love. The time of your life.
Dancing to the beat of their hearts.

Contents

1 Plot summary
2 Main cast
3 Remake
4 Pop culture references
5 Importance in movie history
6 External links

Plot summary

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Frances, also known as "Baby," Houseman (Grey) is an idealistic teenager vacationing with her wealthy family at Kellerman's, a fictional resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the summer of 1963. One evening, stirring music draws her to the staff quarters, where "dirty dancing" is all the rage. Here she meets Johnny Castle (Swayze), a dance instructor, who is as experienced as she is naïve. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and in love. But the two are from different worlds, and Baby's gruff father (Orbach) disapproves. As the summer winds down, Johnny and Baby must come to grips with responsibility and love and others' expectations.

Main cast

Patrick Swayze - Johnny Castle
Jennifer Grey - Frances "Baby" Houseman
Jerry Orbach - Dr. Jake Houseman
Kelly Bishop - Marjorie Houseman
Cynthia Rhodes - Penny Johnson
Jack Weston - Max Kellerman
Max Cantor - Robbie Gould

Remake

A reimagining of this film, called , was released in 2004.

Pop culture references

Johnny Castle's line that "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" was used as the title of two works in homage to the film:

Episode 2.07 of teen drama/neo-noir TV series Veronica Mars.
A song by emo band Fall Out Boy which appears on both My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue and From Under the Cork Tree. The first is an acoustic version; the latter, an electric.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Importance in movie history

Dirty Dancing has been featured in three installments of the American Film Institute's AFI 100 Years... series, starting in 2002 when it was ranked #93 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list. It was next seen in 2004 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs list, with its Academy Award-winning song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" ranking #86. It was seen again in 2005 listed Johnny's famous line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" was ranked #98 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes list.

External links

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