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Dirty Dancing (1987)
6.4
Ratings: 6.4/10 from 64,661 users
Metascore:
65/100
Reviews: 357 user | 68 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher. Director:Emile ArdolinoWriter:Eleanor Bergstein |
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Cast
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| Jerry Orbach | ... | ||
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Cynthia Rhodes | ... | |
| Jack Weston | ... | ||
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Lonny Price | ... | |
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Max Cantor | ... | |
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Charles 'Honi' Coles | ... |
Tito Suarez
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'Cousin Brucie' Morrow | ... | |
| Wayne Knight | ... | ||
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Paula Trueman | ... | |
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Alvin Myerovich | ... | |
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Storyline
In the 1960s, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion... Written by Amanda W, amended by Linda C.
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
First dance. First love. The time of your life. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
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Baile Caliente See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$3,900,000 (USA) (23 August 1987) (975 Screens)Gross:
$213,954,274 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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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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Written by Bruce Channel (uncredited) and Margaret Cobb (uncredited)
Performed by Bruce Channel
Courtesy of Le Cam Records See more »
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During the scene where Baby and Johnny are dancing in the woods and later in the water - since that part of the movie was shot in October at Mountain Lake Virginia, which is when all the leaves on the trees start changing colors - the trees all around the lake and for that scene were spray-painted green due to the fact that the time frame of the movie was set in the summer. If you look closely during that scene in the woods, you can see leaves falling off the trees - this doesn't happen in the summer. See more »Goofs
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Johnny locks his keys in the car he breaks the rear window to open the passenger side door. We then see him go round to the drivers door and open it. Baby can actually be seen reaching across the seat and unlocking the door while Johnny is walks around the car. See more »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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Soundtracks
"Hey Baby"Written by Bruce Channel (uncredited) and Margaret Cobb (uncredited)
Performed by Bruce Channel
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