Product: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: 3.0
1987 hit
I finally got around to catching "Dirty Dancing", which was the hit romantic-drama of 1987. The two main cast members are a highlight. Patrick Swayze is in his prime and Jennifer Grey is cute & nimble like a fawn.Patrick plays Johnny Castle, a working-class dance instructer at a mountain resort in the Catskills in 1963. Grey plays "Baby," a 17-year-old daughter of an afluent Jewish doctor vacationing at the resort. She takes the place of Johnny's dance partner after his partner gets pregnant, albeit not by Johnny; Baby naturally develops a crush.The story keeps your attention but you'll roll your eyes at the classic misunderstanding (Baby's father assumes Johnny got his partner pregnant) and the sexual union of Johnny & Baby is both premature and unfitting to that time period and Baby's upbringing. In addition, the fact that Johnny is having sex with the doctor's daughter, a minor at that, can't win any points in his favor. Hence, even without the misunderstanding there's little reason for the father to warm up to Johnny.But I did love the lush Appalachian locations, filmed at Mountain Lake Resort, Pembroke, Virginia, and Lake Lure, NC. Gorgeous!GRADE: C+ or a strong 3/5 Stars