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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 371
Released: May 8, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby (Grey) vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
Description of Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition):
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
Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
Color is way off on Blu-ray 
2009-11-08 - I have a Samsung Blu-Ray, and the BR disc of the 20th Anniversary version of Dirty Dancing. The picture quality of the movie is just awful, particularly on the indoor scenes. Faces and backgrounds were almost fuchsia, almost always. I did not adjust my TV color, since all of the "extras", including extended scenes, outtakes, and deleted scenes were perfect quality. What a pity. My first BR disc purchase and such a disappointment. The manufacturer should be ashamed.Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]
dirty dancing review 
2009-11-05 - OMG! I think everyone should own a copy of Dirty Dancing! funny, emotional and romantic all at the same time.
Who can resist?
2009-11-02 - If you like/love Patrick Swayze and feel his loss the way all of us Baby Boomers do, then why not just own a copy? Yeah, the story is lame, that acting barely O.K., but who cares? Nothing makes us feel better than that last dance. The rest of the music is top notch and fun and the dancing fantastic. No one, but no one, would be caught dead dancing like that these days tho'or so it would seem. But again, who cares? It's also kind of fun watching the other dancers. Take a close look and watch them ham it up. It's hilarious. Also, having watched it several (who knows how many?) times, I finally noticed a young girl and boy who seemed to be showing up also in several key scenes. The producer's kids maybe? Bottom line, it was Swayze at his absolute best, gorgeous, hunky, sweet, perfect hair, beautiful shy smile. That's why we loved him in this movie and 'Ghost', I guess, and that's why we will miss him.
A classic movie
2009-10-28 - As soon as I heard that Patrick Swayze had passed away, this excellent movie came to mind and I added it to my collection. The acting and the dancing were great and the story rang a bell. I am old enough to remember when families from the city flocked to the Poconos for summer vacation and to escape the heat of the city for a few weeks. Love affairs began and ended and friendships were made, sometimes for life. Patrick Swayze was terrific and this was the movie that brought him the popularity that lasted throughout his career. It is a classic and one of those movies that one can watch over again from time to time and still enjoy it. Highly recommended.
Anne Meteyard
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2009-10-28 - [[ASIN:B00064VRHU Dirty Da
ncing, Ultimate Edition!]] love the movie,we will miss you patrick swayze
