However many times you've seen it, see it again!

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2016)

If you haven't seen this film, where have you been for the past 30 years? In a corner?
The true greatness of a film or story, though, is how it remains relevant even as new events occur. Watch it again and you'll understand why Brexit and Donald Trump happened ...
Frances "Baby" Houseman is a member of the liberal elite in today's language. Aged 17, she wants to study economics in underdeveloped countries and then enter the Peace Corps. From the book and the play, we learn that she supports troops on "the right side of the Ho Chi Minh trail". Mention is made of the Mississippi Marches to encourage African Americans to register and vote.
Johnny Castle exclaims that no-one ever marched for him. He bemoans the feast-and-famine nature of his gig economy job as a dance instructor. He goes from subsisting on dewberries to having "diamonds stuffed in his pocket" by wealthy women who "use" him as he describes it.
Jonny has waited patiently whilst Baby has sorted out blacks, women, LGBTs, etc and now HE'S marching and voting ... for Trump, Brexit, Corbyn.
Now, if that's got you depressed, don't worry, it all works out well in the end. Maybe the same will happen to Donald and Hillary. Ugg, now I've got an image of them in bed together. I'm going for a lie down.