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07/01/04
Dirty Dancing (1987)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:29
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.9/10
Synopsis: Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the... [More]
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes
Director: Emile Ardolino
Reviews for Dirty Dancing
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10/18/02
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10/21/05
No review available.
10/22/06
The dance finale between Gray and Swayze, although an obvious crowd-pleaser, is performed to a contemporary song clearly intended for the charts, which blows the period feel right off the dance floor.
02/12/08
Top CriticNo review available.
02/17/03
Abysmal pre-teen trash
12/31/04
Someone shoot me or worse, make me watch this for the millionth time with my older sister!
02/19/03
Some see it as a classic, others wonder why. I fall into the latter category.
08/08/02
No review available.
07/26/02
An animated rendering of its characters is virtually the only thing preventing the formulaic Dirty Dancing from being another one of Disney's crappy romances.
05/01/07
The movie plays like one long, sad, compromise; it places packaging ahead of ambition.
01/01/00
Top CriticIts attitudes and its controversies are so dated that it feels like the film was made in 1963. And have you tried to watch a teenaged dance movie from 1963 lately?
06/05/02
Against all odds on the night of the Event, she steps up and shows the world that Baby can dance and only pictures this awful gross that much money.
08/07/07
The dancing is pretty great.
01/01/00
Teenage titillation for girls, circa 1963.
02/12/08
Chick flicks have hardly been bettered.
04/03/03
The film’s easy charm, infectious soundtrack and tidy choreography should still win over new fans as well as old.
01/26/06
If you can suspend your disbelief and go without substantial characters or innovative plot elements, you will walk away feeling pretty good.
01/01/00
Endlessly quotable, strangely fascinating and immensely charming.
02/09/07
Top CriticLatest News for Dirty Dancing
September 14, 2009:
Patrick Swayze: 1952-2009
Patrick Swayze, the versatile actor who starred in some of the biggest Hollywood hits of the late 1980s and early 1990s, died Sept. 14 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He... More...
August 19, 2009:
Lionsgate Limbers Up for More Dirty Dancing 
Time to get back in your corner, Baby -- Lionsgate seems to be prepping a "Dirty Dancing" remake. More...
March 07, 2008:
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer
Patrick Swayze, star of such hit films as Dirty Dancing, Ghost, and Road House, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. More...
February 13, 2008:
Total Recall: It's a Dance Dance Revolution
Audiences have been historically dismissive of all the critical contempt, pushing dozens of fancy-footed extravaganzas to the upper reaches of the box-office charts.
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