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Dirty Dancing

1987

Emile Ardolino

Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes ...

6.1

75,406

Romance. Drama Summer of 1963. 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A wonderfully corny story, performed exuberantly by Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"An engaging pop-movie romance of somewhat more substance than one usually finds in summer movies designed for the young."	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"This is a shapely film, considered and concise. And if its rhetorical slickness eventually covers up its emotional core, that slickness has a pleasure of its own."	POS
United States	David Edelstein Rolling Stone	"For those supple, shapely numbers – when Grey spins with Swayze, and blooms – I’d forgive anything."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie turns out to be a tired and relentlessly predictable story of love between kids from different backgrounds (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"Endlessly quotable, strangely fascinating and immensely charming, there's a reason that this retains an evergreen appeal (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The purest spirit of the 1980s is distilled in this amiable film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sue Heal Radio Times	"This feel-good dance movie works a curious, charismatic magic (...) The casting is perfect (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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