Dirty Dancing
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### Details

Director: | Emile Ardolino, Ardolino
Writer: | Eleanor Bergstein, Bergstein
Producer: | Eleanor Bergstein, Linda Gottlieb
Theatrical: | 1987
Rated: | PG-13
Studio: | Lions Gate
Genre: | Romance, Music, Drama
Duration: | 1 hr 36 mins

Languages: | English
Subtitles: | Spanish
Sound: | Stereo [English]
Aspect Ratio: | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Picture Format: | Widescreen
Discs: | 2
Region: | Region 1
Release: | Jan 1987

#### Features

Jennifer Grey DVD introduction
Multivoice Commentary with Kenny Ortega (Choreographer), Miranda Garrison (Assistant Choreographer and Actress Vivian Pressman in the film), Jeff Jur (Director of Photography), Hilary Rosenfeld (Costume Designer) and David Chapman (Production Designer)
Jennifer Grey Interview
Miranda Garrison Interview
Kenny Ortega Interview
Eleanor Bergstein Interview
Emile Ardolino Tribute
Dirty Dancing Live In Concert
"Hungry Eyes" Music Video
"She's Like the Wind" Music Video
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Music Video
Interactive Menus
Theatrical Trailer
Trailer Gallery
Trivia Track
Scene Selections

### Summary

Baby (Jennifer Gray) visits a summer resort with her family. She tries to get into the resort activities, but she's really more interested in what the owners' preppy nephew calls &quot;the dance people&quot;. One night she sees a staff man struggling with two watermelons. He lets her carry one for him into a staff building where everyone is dirty dancing. She sees Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) and his dance partner, Penny, come in. Baby dances with Johnny. Baby finds out that Penny is pregnant and wants an abortion. Baby gets the money from her father, a prominent doctor (Jerry Orbach). Baby offers to learn Penny's dances so that she can sub for her while she recovers. She spends many hours with Johnny learning the dances and falling in love. Penny is badly hurt by the abortion, so Baby brings her father to help her. Her father immediately assumes that Johnny was the baby's father, and doesn't want Baby seeing him. She sneaks to his cabin anyway. Nearing the close of the season a woman who's jealous of Johnny turns him in as a thief. Johnny is subsequently fired, even when it's learned who the real thieves are. He leaves. Baby mopes. Then at the closing night ceremony, Johnny comes to reclaim Baby, and they dance for the entire gathering.

### Credits

Patrick Swayze | ... | Johnny Castle
Jennifer Grey | ... | Frances Houseman
Max Cantor | ... | Robbie Gould
Kelly Bishop | ... | Marjorie Houseman
Jerry Orbach | ... | Dr. Jake Houseman
Lonny Price | ... | Neil Kellerman
Jane Brucker | ... |
Thomas Cannold | ... |
Charles 'Honi' Coles | ... |
Cynthia Rhodes | ... |
Jack Weston | ... |