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Dirty Dancing |  | Artist: Video
Studio: Vestron (Universal)
Category: Video
Buy New: CDN$ 16.65
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Seller: golfgwen
Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 528
Format: Original recording remastered, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305134766
UPC: 028485160132
EAN: 9786305134763
ASIN: 6300263673
Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1987
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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From 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. --Kathy Fennessy
Chronique amazon.fr
1963 : "Baby" Houseman, 17 ans, passe ses vacances d'été dans un village-vacances de l'Oregon avec sa famille. Elle est bien vite attirée par le club de danse, mené par un des animateurs du village, où elle apprendra le "dirty dancing" dont la technique, des corps s'entremêlant langoureusement sur fond de rythm'n'blues, aura des effets bénéfiques sur sa découverte de la vie et de l'amour, mais dramatiques dans le contexte familial puritain de l'Amérique des années 60. Véritable hymne à la danse et à la liberté, ce film-culte des années 80 a imposé Patrick Swayze sur la scène internationale, et bénéficie d'une bande-son exceptionnelle qui ravira les amateurs d'ambiances sixties. --David Rault
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 Much more than you expect May 13, 2010
Neil Roy (Canada)
This was an excellent purchase. There is more on these DVDs than you can shake a stick at. The bonus DVDs has absolutely everything you can imagine from the movie. Alternate endings, cut scenes, screen tests, even a few scenes where there was a different actress playing the mother, interview with Patrick Swayze you name it. If you like this movie, you'll want this DVD, if for nothing else than the bonus DVD.
Of course, the movie is a good story as well. ;)
20th Anniversary well worth buying October 15, 2009
L. McDonald (Winnipeg,MB.Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The double C.D. not only gives you the full length feature but the 2nd C.D. gives you an insight to the making and feelings of all involved 20 years ago. I found it very interesting to watch and listen to the interviews. Very well done. Not to mention the 3-bonus videos. Great!!If you are a fan BUY this for sure.
 Worth the purchase May 30, 2009
willy2 (Manitoba, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I also have this movie on dvd but the blu-ray edition is quite an improvement the sound is excellent picture quality is great too.
excellent movie February 11, 2009
Anna-maria Macneil (vancouver island)
I watched this movie long ago and have recently had my 15 year old daughter rent it too many times to count so we bought it for her for xmas and she was so happy! we watch it together and both drool over patrick.
as wonderful as I remembered January 1, 2007
Shemogue (New Brunswick)
I bought this DVD & watched it again last night - more than a decade after I had packed away my old video. It is just as wonderful as I remembered and certainly remains one of my all-time favourite films. At the risk of sounding repetitious after the 216 other reviewers I will explain why.
Dirty Dancing is set in a summer resort in the Catskills in 1963, a gentler, simpler time when the world (or at least the North American middle class part of it) was innocent and naïve & hovered on the cusp of vast social change. It was before the Kennedy assassination & the morass of Viet Nam, before student riots and feminism and The Pill, before the Beatles, and just as Motown music was hitting our consiousness.
In 1963 swear words did not appear in print, let alone on TV. Movies and books told a story with a "moral". The good guys always won & the bad guys got their just desserts. Pregnancy out of wedlock was the greatest disaster that could befall a young girl, usually solved by her family sending her "to visit an aunt" out of state for a year, putting the baby up for adoption & drawing a veil of silence over the episode. (This actually happened to a school acquaintance of mine in 1963: everyone knew, but it was never, I repeat, NEVER, spoken of again).
The film has a particular resonance for our generation who came of age at that time. The heroine was 17 years old in 1963, exactly my age then. I worked at a summer resort & knew someone just like Johnny Castle, played by Patrick Swayze in the film. I think most women have a Johnny Castle one summer in our youth.
In 1987 it was mothers who dragged their protesting daughters to see the movie. It has spawned a host of imitators & remakes, the best of which is probably the Australian-made "Strictly Ballroom". There is also a recent remake "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights", set in Cuba which has a following among a new young generation although I have not seen it. Now, a new DVD of Dirty Dancing is being issued for the children & grandchildren of the original fans.
Dirty Dancing bears its age well. It is well worth seeing again, besides hearing that wonderful music that threads through the film: Cry to Me, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, In the Still of the Night, Soul Man, Hungry Eyes and the finale piece "I've Had the Time of My Life" sung by one half of the Righteous Brothers duo, the golden-voiced Bill Medley.
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