Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video, and its soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles. The film’s popularity led to an unrelated 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and a stage version which has had sellout performances. A made-for-TV remake was also released in 2017.
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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video, and its soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles. The film’s popularity led to an unrelated 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America. A made-for-TV remake was also released in 2017. It stars Jennifer Grey as Frances \”Baby\” Houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle at a holiday resort. It premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 1987, and was released on August 21, 1987,. in the United States, earning over USD 214 million worldwide. In the summer of 1963, Frances Houseman is vacationing with her parents, Jake and Marjorie Houseman,. and her older sister Lisa, at Kellerman’s, an upscale Catskills resort which is owned by Max, Jake’s friend. Baby is attracted to Johnny, and dances briefly with him after his cousin, Billy, takes her to one of the staff’s secret “dirty” dancing parties. Baby learns Johnny’s dance partner Penny is pregnant by Robbie, a womanizer who attends Yale School of Medicine and who now has his eye on Lisa. When Robbie refuses to help Penny, Baby borrows money from her father to pay for Penny’s abortion.
The two continue seeing each other, but Baby keeps it secret from her dad, who now refuses to talk to her. Baby sneaks off to apologize to Johnny for her dad’s treatment of him, but Johnny feels he deserves it due to his lower status; Baby reassures him of his own worth and then declares her love for him. Baby later apologizes to her father for lying, but not for her romance with Johnny, then accuses him of class prejudice. Dr. Houseman angrily grabs the final song by Baby and declares that she has made him a better person and then insults her and Johnny. The real thieves Sydney and Silvia Schumacher are caught but Baby is only accused of now trying to get back at her father, but she is still fired during the end-of-season talent show. The final song is \” The Time of My Life\”, which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for best duet. The film was based on screenwriter Bergstein’s own childhood, and originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film It’s My Turn, but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became Dirty Dancing. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardalino as director and Linda Gottieb as producer. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film’s score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.
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