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Dirty Dancing
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*Dirty Dancing* is a 1987 American romance, musical, and drama film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Eleanor Bergstein. The cast includes Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, and Cynthia Rhodes. Set in 1963, the narrative takes place in New York, while the production was filmed in North Carolina. John Morris composed the score, and the original soundtrack was released for the Vestron motion picture.
The film has a runtime of 100 minutes and was distributed by Vestron Pictures and Netflix. It was produced with a budget of 6,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 213,954,274. The movie received the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. It holds a PG-13 rating and has received various critical scores, including a 7.1 rating on IMDb and a 65 Metascore.
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Film · TMDB
7.3Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
Cast
- Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman
- Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle
- Cynthia Rhodes as Penny Johnson
- Neal Jones as Billy Kostecki
- Jerry Orbach as Dr. Jake Houseman
- Kelly Bishop as Marjorie Houseman
Themes
- hotel
- daughter
- dancing
- secret love
- robbery
- sibling relationship
- summer camp
- dancing master
- mambo
- dance performance
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
278,080 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
73%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 1987
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 9 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Emile Ardolino
- Written by
- Eleanor Bergstein
- Produced by
- Linda Gottlieb
- Starring
- Patrick Swayze Jennifer Grey Jerry Orbach Cynthia Rhodes
- Cinematography
- Jeffrey Jur
- Edited by
- Peter C. Frank
- Music by
- John Morris Erich Bulling Jon Barns
- Production company
- Great American Films Limited Partnership
- Distributed by
- Vestron Pictures
- Release dates
- May 12, 1987 ( 1987-05-12 ) ( Cannes ) August 21, 1987 ( 1987-08-21 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 100 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.5 million
- Box office
- $214 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) while vacationing at a resort in the 1963 Borscht Belt.
The film was based on screenwriter Bergstein's own childhood. She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas 1980 film It's My Turn, but she ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became Dirty Dancing. She finished the script in 1985, but management changes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put the film in development hell. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.
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