WATCH ALONG: Dirty Dancing

Joel Grey kills it in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins". When I first saw it, I thought he was terrible. But seeing it again after knowing the plot, I realized what a good job he'd done.

N1nth Sh4dow

Nope, she was in another movie with him though, I forget which one. Just checked, it was Steel Dawn.

Kenton Kruger

From what I understand, Penny was played by Patrick Swayze's wife.

Oouga

Couldn’t have said it better!

I always liked him in the now forgotten mystery/thriller "Man on a Swing"(1974) with Cliff Robertson

Paul Johnson

Fun fact: Jennifer Grey’s dad is Joel Grey, a film and theater legend who’s won virtually every award there is to win. He’s the MC in “Cabaret” starring Liza Minnelli, which he won an Oscar for best supporting actor. He’s delightfully creepy. He also starred in “Reno Williams” as Chun. I highly recommend both these films, Ashleigh!

Mo Vetta

You probably recognize Baby from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, she played his bitchy sister.

Kel

It feels like you’re getting stuck in the mindset of this movie being “about dancing” which makes the deeper scenes confusing as to why they are in “a movie like this” whereas this movie ISNT a “dance movie”, the movie IS the deeper stuff. The dancing is just the maggufin used to hang it all together. To differentiate the rich from the poor, to frame the dynamic between the blue collar and white, the old and the young etc in this pivotal time of change in society that was the early 60s as the rigid, unyielding morales of the 50s gave way to growth and freedom of spirit. It’s the time that spirit transitioned from fighting authority to becoming normalised across that decade and into the 70s. Seems to me that for whatever reason, maybe your mums build up and other peoples comments, you went into this one with very set ideas about what the movie was and couldn’t break out of that frame of reference as the movie proved to be very different to what it seems to be on the surface. Sometimes we need to abandon our conceptions of a thing when it starts showing us things about itself that don’t fit the pre-conception and let it teach us what it really is. This movie is a perfect example of that. Especially for someone born so far from that time who might not get the implications if they go into it thinking it’s a “dance movie”. Like when you say “I didn’t expect some of those really deep scenes in a movie like this”, you’re not being taught by the content itself that it ISNT “a movie like this”. And the lift? The only reason the lift was an element in the movie at all WAS to have a tangible sign of Baby’s growth and her having learnt to believe in herself and have confidence. Without that lift at the end the previous scenes of her training for it and failing to do it in the routine at the hotel wouldn’t even be in the movie. Basically all the bits you were confused why they were in the movie and made it drag for you ARE the actual movie. The dancing is just window dressing and plot device. Finally, that wasn’t 80s movie making cheese, that was a recreation of authentic, societal expectation, fake personas in public and general crap taste in music and activities on the part of the oldies of the 50/60s. Hope this doesn’t sound aggro or anything, I’m not butt hurt or anything. I just really think this movie deserves a lot more respect than it gets and I find most often that it doesn’t get it because of fundamental misunderstanding of what it actually is about due to the marketing it had and the reputation it has gotten has pretty much followed that shallow interpretation in the decades since. I cannot recommend strongly enough rewatching this with your mom and getting her to talk about it with you as you watch. Get her perspective on it as someone who lived through those years…. If she did at an age to understand what was going on… otherwise a grandmother?

thescourge

Girl, we all were in love with Patrick Swayze in those days. When this movie came out and I finally saw it, I was about 8 or 9 and just starting to like boys. I can tell ya, this movie gave me and my girlfriends all the feels between the dancing, the love story, and Patrick Swayze when we watched it, and we were OBSESSED. I’ve seen this movie so many times, it’s ridiculous! LOL

Kelly Marie

I feel the same as you do.

Mark Dunham

The movie had to deal with classism. I believe a lot of 80’s movies touch on that because being poor was a big deal and people wanting you to stay within your “class.” A lot of people were taught you should only date and talk with people who were in their so called group.

melinda wilson

The song, She's Like The Wind is Patrick singing!!

Jill Peterson

Patrick Swayze didn't want the role because he didn't want to do dancing roles. His mom owned a dance studio so he already knew how to dance.

Stephanie Bushard

Patrick Swayze sings the song "She's Like the Wind" that plays as he and Baby are saying goodbye toward the end. So yes, there wasn't much that man couldn't do :)

RShelby

You can rent the 4K version on Amazon Video for $1.99.

Thomas Ivie