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Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] | ![Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QURqhhljL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Max Cantor, Charles "Honi" Coles, Jesus Fuentes
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.37
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Sales Rank: 3215
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: LGEBR21282
UPC: 012236212829
EAN: 0012236212829
ASIN: B000NIVJGI
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
doctor's daughter gets slinky with the dance teacher at a Catskills resort, summer 1963
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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
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