Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: RANDLESGIFTS
EAN: 9786305134763
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 6305134766
Label: Vestron Video
Manufacturer: Vestron Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vestron Video
Release Date: October 13, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 6240
Studio: Vestron Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1987
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Amazon.com:
As with Grease (1978) and Footloose (1984) before it, Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp. That very campiness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--it does take place in an era (the early '60s) when it would have. Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey, daughter of ageless hoofer Joel Grey) has been vacationing in the Catskills with her family for many years. Uneventfully. One summer, she falls under the sway (as it were) of dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). Baby is a pampered pup, but Johnny is a man of the world. Baby's father, Jake (Law and Order's Jerry Orbach), can't see the basic decency in greaser Johnny that she can. It should come as no surprise to find that Baby, who can be as immature as her name, learns more about love and life--and dancing--from free-spirited Johnny than traditionalist Jake.
Dirty Dancing spawned two successful soundtracks, a short-lived TV series, and a stage musical. It may be predictable, but Grey and Swayze have chemistry, charisma, and all the right moves. It's a sometimes silly movie with occasionally mind-boggling dialogue--"No one puts Baby in a corner!"--that nonetheless carries an underlying message about tolerance and is filled with the kind of exuberant spirit that's hard for even the most cynical to resist. Not that they'd ever admit it. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Average Rating: 
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I love this DVD. If you love the movie Dirty Dancing you will love this
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This movie was made in 1987...I was born in 1986... and it is hands down one of my very favourite movies. It's even greater to update it for us, the "microwave generation" and I like that I have it on hand whenever I want to watch it.
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I like the movie. But this recording is terrible.
It is NOT 1080p, and the sound is mostly mono.
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What's not to love? I'm so glad to have one of my favorite movies in DVD. The anniversry edition is just a bonus.
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When this movie came out it spawned a hype unlike anything I'd seen before or since. Full of notable quotables ("No one puts Baby in a corner"), having not one but two successful soundtracks (one even featuring the one and only published vocal talents of Patrick Swayze the star of the movie!), and a semi camp classic that the famous 80s movies would go down in history for. Looking back brings so many memories, and so much silliness.
Jennifer Grey plays Baby, a nice Jewish girl who ... Read More
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