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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical and romance film directed by Emile Ardolino. The film starred Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach.

Filmed at Mountain Lake in Virginia and at Lake Lure in North Carolina, Dirty Dancing was distributed by Vestron Pictures. The movie became a major hit after it was released, despite being a low-budget film with no major stars (at the time). Its soundtrack is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, and it spawned several hits, including "She's Like the Wind," sung by Swayze; "Hungry Eyes," sung by Eric Carmen; and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," composed by Franke Previte and sung by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, which won an Oscar for Best Original Song.

Taglines:

Have the time of your life.
First dance. First love. The time of your life.
Dancing to the beat of their hearts.

Plot summary

Frances, a.k.a. "Baby," Houseman (Grey) is an idealistic Jewish teenager vacationing with her wealthy family at Kellerman's, a fictional resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the summer of 1963. One evening, stirring music draws her to the staff quarters, where "dirty dancing" is all the rage. Here she meets Johnny Castle (Swayze), a gentile dance instructor, who is as experienced as she is naïve. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and in love. But the two are from different worlds, and Baby's gruff father (Orbach) disapproves. As the summer winds down, Johnny and Baby must come to grips with responsibility and love and other's expectations.

This movie includes the memorable line spoken by Swayze's character near the end: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

Main cast

Patrick Swayze
- Johnny Castle
Jennifer Grey
- Frances "Baby" Houseman
Jerry Orbach
- Dr. Jake Houseman
Kelly Bishop
- Marjorie Houseman
Cynthia Rhodes
- Penny Johnson
Jack Weston
- Max Kellerman
Max Cantor
- Robbie Gould

Prequel

A prequel to this film was released 2004 called Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

Pop Culture References

The tv show Veronica Mars paid homage to this movie by giving an episode the title Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner.

Emo/Pop Punk band Fall Out Boy have a song titled "Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner" on both the albums My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue and on their sophomore release From Under The Cork Tree. The first is an acoustic version, the latter is an electric.

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