Dirty Dancing
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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.
Plot summary:
Frances, or Baby (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 (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 father 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 Patrick Swayze's character near the end; "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Main cast
- Patrick Swayze - Johnny Castle
- Jennifer Grey - Frances "Baby" Houseman
- Jerry Orbach - Dr. Jake Houseman
- Kelly Bishop - Marjorie Houseman
- Cynthia Rhodes - Penny Johnson
- Jack Weston - Max Kellerman