Enjoyable and Nostalgic

Rating: 8/10 (19 October 2005)

Baby Houseman, her parents, and sister take a summer vacation at a fictional place called Kellerman's Resort in New York. Baby quickly grows up when she falls in love with a dancer at the hotel named Johnny. Baby helps other at the resort face their fears such as the female dancer Penny who decides to end an unwanted pregnancy. Baby disappoints her doctor father by the type of people she befriends at the resort, but he fails to realize until the end of the movie that she is having a positive effect on these people rather than them having a negative effect on her. Each time I watch this movie I honestly have a hard time believing Johnny falls in love with Baby because Baby looks so young and naive. However, the casting really is well done because one of the movies themes is you sometimes have to take risks to find true happiness.
The movie is enjoyable with the well choreographed dancing scenes and also nostalgic because many people today are glued to their television screens and computers and don't enjoy old fashioned fun anymore. "Dirty Dancing" was filmed about 10 miles away from Virginia Tech at Mountain Lake Hotel in Pembroke Virginia. This is a beautiful hotel that I recommend to everyone visiting Southwest Virginia. Some of the movie was also filmed in Lake Lure, North Carolina and this is also a gorgeous place well worth a visit.