It's summer, 1963. Frances, seventeen and innocent, is on holiday with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny--the hotel dance instructor--and is mesmerised by him and his dance style. She soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil, in dance and in love.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Linda Gottlieb, Eleanor Bergstein
EAN
5035822100251
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3942270
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
Dirty Dancing
Actor
Lonny Price, Jerry Orbach, Patrick Swayze, Miranda Garrison, Wayne Knight, Jack Weston, Max Cantor, Neal Jones, Garry Goodrow, Kelly Bishop, Cynthia Rhodes, Jennifer Grey
Director
Emile Ardolino
Format
DVD
Language
English
Release Year
2001
Features
Learn to Dirty Dance\Audio Commentary from the Creator Eleanor Bergstein\Filmographies\Trailer, Widescreen, With Subtitles
Franchise
Dirty Dancing
Aspect Ratio
1.78 Wide Screen
Run Time
100 Mins
Genre
Drama, Romantic
Additional Product Features
Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Jeffrey Jur
Costume Designer
Hilary Rosenfeld
Production Designer
David Chapman
Reviews
New York Times - ...Nicely bittersweet....A drive and a pulse that give the film real excitement..., Variety - ...Some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Jennifer Grey make the film more than watchable...
Choreographer
Kenny Ortega
Additional Information
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.