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Dirty Dancing
Have the time of your life.
Have the time of your life.
Drama, Music, Romance - 1987
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Expecting 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.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
21 Aug 1987
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$6,000,000
Revenue:
$213,893,795
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 6 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
This is a shapely film, considered and concise. And if its rhetorical slickness eventually covers up its emotional core, that slickness has a pleasure of its own.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar 2013
fresh:
Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual.
– Sheila Benson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar 2013
fresh:
Although the plot is sometimes implausible, the movie's music, dancing and romantic spirit carry a lot of it. In addition, Dirty Dancing has the virtues of a female main character (a bit unusual in a coming-of-age movie) and an interesting setting.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Mar 2013
fresh:
If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
25 Mar 2013
fresh:
The dancing here brings out the sensual dreaminess of the songs. Dirty Dancing -- what a great title! -- is such a bubbleheaded, retro vision of growing up in the sixties (or any other time) that you go out of the theatre giggling happily.
– Pauline Kael,
New Yorker,
6 May 2013
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