FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Dirty Dancing
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer72%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.2/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic65/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) while vacationing at a Borscht Belt resort in 1963.
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Music / Drama
- Original language
- English
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