Product: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: 5.0
One of My All-Time Favorite Movies!
"Dirty Dancing" is an awesome romance movie set in the late 1950's. Everything takes place at an upper-class, family-friendly summer camp - where "rich" families come to be entertained for a few months.One of the first things I noticed was the great dichotomy between the "workers" & the "guests", as well as between the "dancers" and the rest of the staff. The dancers are considered "low lifes", and as "less than" everyone else - as they generally come from poorer homes. The rest of the staff tends to be kids who plan to go on to well-known colleges & universities - and because of this, many of the families want their girls to become interested in (and hopefully at some point marry) the boys who are ANYTHING but dancers.The premise of the movie is that one of these "rich girls" (Baby, played by Jennifer Grey) falls in love with the "head" dancer (Johnny, played by Patrick Swayze), and an amazing love affair ensues. During this "love affair", several things happen that make the girls' father think even worse of the man Baby's come to love, and so she's forbidden to see or talk to him again.Several important life-themes come up in this movie, including: the concept of social class & how this can make us blind to truth, the realization that what you see is not always what you get (you can't judge a book by its cover), the fact that we can all do whatever we put our minds to, and that the only constant in life is that things will change.Overall, I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a good romance - it's one that can pull you in easily, and keep you hooked all the way to the end!