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Dirty Dancing (1987) -- Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
Dirty Dancing (1987) -- Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
Dirty Dancing (1987) -- Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
Dirty Dancing (1987) -- Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher.
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Eleanor Bergstein (written by)
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Release Date:
21 August 1987 (USA) more
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Have The Time Of Your Life more
Plot:
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher. full summary | full synopsis
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Won Oscar. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations more
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Maybe a predictable story of girl gets man of her dreams but this film is still brilliant!!!! more (341 total)

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Also Known As:
Dirty Dancing (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Dança Comigo (Portugal) [pt]
Danse lascive (Canada: French title) [fr]
Dirty Dancing (Greece) [el]
Dirty Dancing (France) [fr]
Dirty Dancing (Finland) (DVD title) [fi]
Dirty Dancing - Ritmo Quente (Brazil) [pt]
Dirty dancing, balli proibiti (Italy) [it]
Het dans (Sweden) [sv]
Ilk dans, ilk ask (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Kuuma tanssi (Finland) [fi]
Piszkos tánc (Hungary) [hu]
Wirujacy seks (Poland) [pl]
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USA:100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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At the beginning of the film, it is said that Baby will attend Mount Holyoke College in the fall. Her namesake, Frances Perkins, was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Class of 1902. more
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Continuity: Size of the hole in Johnny's back window changes between shots. more
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Radio disc jockey: [on radio] Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby: [voiceover] That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
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58 out of 80 people found the following comment useful.
Maybe a predictable story of girl gets man of her dreams but this film is still brilliant!!!!, 20 June 2001
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Author: expage2002 from England

I have been waiting to see this film for ages and I finally have! As soon as I heard the title I knew that this film would be my favourite film ever and when I saw it believe me I wasn't disappointed!

This film had everything dance, love and Patrick Swayze! There was so much in it and it dealt with important issues, (that were at the time, 1960's) , such as abortion.

The dancing in this film was fantastic, just like the acting was! Swayze was brilliant just like Grey was too!

Although this film was absolutely fantastic you cannot say that you have seen it if you haven't seen the last scene. It really does take your breath away as the whole choreography of the last dance was done brilliantly, it had you dancing at the end of the film and it really wouldn't surprise me if it influenced people to take up dancing!

Overall Dirty Dancing is a film NOT to be missed and even if half the actors are in the: "Where are they now?" period the actors will always have this superb film in their career!

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