| | | First dance. First love. The time of your life.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Interviews, Audio Commentary, Featurette, Trivia Track, Music Videos, English, Spanish Subtitled, 2 Discs
Heartthrob Patrick Swayze (Red Dawn), Jennifer Grey (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and dancing sensation Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance) star in this electrifying sensual film. A vivid love story, Dirty Dancing is set to the pounding rhythms and vibrant dance of the time. It's summer, 1973, Baby (Grey), 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. While exploring the resort grounds late one evening, she is drawn into the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny (Swayze), the hotel dance instructor, as experienced in life as Baby is naive. Mesmerized by the sexy beats and uninhibited movements of "dirty dancing," Baby soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil--in dance and in love.
"Jennifer Grey is a knockout." David Ansen, Newsweek
"Patrick Swayze... is a seething mass of sensuality..." Jami Bernard, New York Post
"Absolutely sensational!" Jeffrey Lyons, INN/Sneak Previews
"Excellent performances... the dancing, especially the dirty dancing, has a drive and a pulse that gives the film real excitement." New York Times
Editor's Note
It's summer, 1963. Baby, 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, and is mesmerized by him as well as his dance style. She soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil - in dance and in love. Academy Awards: Best Song ("(I've Had) The Time of My Life").
Plot Summary
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 facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend, Penny, is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get an abortion. This leaves Johnny a solo act -- until Baby agrees to take Penny's place. She has to learn how to dance first, however, and as Johnny teaches her the choreography's sexy, seductive moves, the two fall in love.| But Baby's father believes that Johnny is the creep who got Penny pregnant, and he furiously orders Baby to end the relationship. Baby knows that Johnny's innocent -- and with her feisty idealism and his dance talent, the two will prove to Baby's father that their love is worth fighting for.
| Features | Trivia Track | | Interviews with Jennifer Grey, Eleanor Bergstein, Kenny Ortega and Miranda Garrison | | Director Emile Ardolino Featurette | | Jennifer's Grey's Screen Test | | Trailer Gallery | | Sneek Peak at Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | | Commentary Track with Key Choreographers, Costume and Production Designers | | Dirty Dancing Live In Concert | | Music Videos for "Hungry Eyes," "She's Like the Wind," "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" | | Theatrical Trailer | | Audio: English DTS-ES Digital Discrete Sound, Dolby 5.1 EX Digital Surround Sound | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Newly Remastered 16x9 Feature |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Artisan |
| Release Date: 4/3/2008 |
| Running Time: 105 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 14699 | | UPC: 00012236146995 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1988) |  | John DeNicola, et. al., Winner, Best Music, Song | |
Golden Globe (1988) | | John DeNicola, et. al., Winner, Best Original Song | | | Patrick Swayze, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | | | Jennifer Grey, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical |
| Memorable Quotes| "The reason people treat me like nothing is because I am nothing." ---- Johnny Castle [Patrick Swayze] |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Nicely bittersweet....A drive and a pulse that give the film real excitement..." 08/21/1987 p.C3Variety
"...Some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Jennifer Grey make the film more than watchable..." 05/20/1987 Los Angeles Times
"...Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sexual....Grey and Swayze are tough, thoughtful, lovely actors..." 08/21/1987 p.C1 Entertainment Weekly
"[A] slumber-party classic..." 04/15/2005 p.48 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his '80s classic transcends cynicism to give warm-fuzzies the world over." 03/01/2007 p.46 Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hanks to a fabulous soundtrack and enthusiastic performances, it's still as much fun as ever." 12/01/2007 p.98 |
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