Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing

Directed by	Emile Ardolino
Written by	Eleanor Bergstein
Starring	Patrick Swayze Jennifer Grey Jerry Orbach
Produced by	Linda Gottlieb
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	August 17, 1987
Runtime	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$6,000,000 (estimated)
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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical/romance film starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and the late Jerry Orbach.

Tagline: Have the time of your life.

Filmed at Mountain Lake in Virginia and at Lake Lure in North Carolina, Dirty Dancing was distributed by Vestron Pictures. The movie became a major hit after it was released, despite being a low-budget film with no major stars. Its soundtrack is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, and it spawned several hits, including "She's Like the Wind," sung by Swayze; "Hungry Eyes," by Eric Carmen; and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes, which won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

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Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Frances, a.k.a. "Baby," Houseman (Grey) is an idealistic Jewish teenager vacationing with her wealthy family at Kellerman's, a fictional resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the summer of 1963. One evening, stirring music draws her to the staff quarters, where "dirty dancing" is all the rage. Here she meets Johnny Castle (Swayze), a gentile dance instructor, who is as experienced as she is naïve. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and in love. But the two are from different worlds, and Baby's gruff father (Orbach) disapproves. As the summer winds down, Johnny and Baby must come to grips with responsibility and love and other's expectations.

This movie is also famous for the line spoken by Swayze's character near the end: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

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