Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12024 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-08
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Running time: 105 minutes

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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. --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