Product: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: 5.0
A True Classic
I first saw Dirty Dancing when I was about seven years old. My cousins would come over and bring their recorded-from-tv VHS tape and we'd watch and dance around together. Nostalgia is a big reason for my adoration of this film.Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) goes to a summer resort with her family just after graduating from high school. She is an idealist who intends on joining the Peace Corps. While exploring the resort grounds, she spots one of the staff, a dancer named Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). He is a rebel, but someone who has been stepped on his whole life. Baby lucks into meeting him, and the two become unlikely dance partners when Johnny's real partner (Cynthia Rhodes) becomes pregnant and needs an abortion. Baby's attraction to Johnny is soon reciprocated and the two begin a forbidden romance.The music is vital to the film, and without it, it wouldn't have a fraction of its fans. Of course, "Time of My Life" won an Oscar and is the most memorable. Swayze sings "She's Like the Wind" which provides additional emotion to an important scene. Also included are "Hungry Eyes," "Love is Strange," and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"Men will dislike this movie, or at least feel a need to publically renounce it, but women will eat up every moment. It never loses its spark.