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  Dirty Dancing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical and romance film directed by Emile Ardolino.
One evening, stirring music draws her to the staff quarters, where "dirty dancing" is all the rage.
Dirty Dancing has been featured in three installments of the American Film Institute's AFI 100 Years...
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 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing: Jennifer Grey's Baby is an overachieving, bookish teenager ripped from her mid-'60s routine to go on vacation with her family and play shuffleboard.
Dirty Dancing: Johnny shows Baby the steamy side of resort life: the staff lounge, where the young help, sweaty and momentarily liberated from their senior citizen overlords, dance the night away.
Dirty Dancing: Baby's uptight father (who used to be a young med student and was probably pretty fun in his day) is appalled when he finds out that his little girl has been cavorting with the lowly staff.
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 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Adding the words "dirty dancing" to the title instantly conjures up images of the original, even if the two are only marginally related.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights does look great, from the cramped club where Javier practices to the contrast of the opulence of the hotel where the foreigners stay with the poorer streets inhabited by Cubans.
The sad part is, the best dancing doesn't occur at the contest, but in the clubs where Katey watches, awestruck at how these people let the music flow through their bodies.
www.haro-online.com /movies/dirty_dancing_havana_nights.html   (665 words)

  
 DIRTY DANCING
But "Dirty Dancing?" While it's a rather enjoyable film with two engaging lead characters, its re-release is questionable at best and the movie probably won't last longer than a week or two in the theaters.
With dancing in their blood (Swayze had professional training while Grey's father was a big Broadway star), the two look very natural on the dance floor and it's a great deal of fun watching her "learn" how to dance.
There are several scenes where "dirty dancing" occurs with couples dancing and then grinding or thrusting their pelvic areas together, sometimes with the man between the woman's legs.
www.screenit.com /movies/1987/dirty_dancing.html   (1678 words)

  
 DIRTY DANCING at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
Dirty Dancing is an appealing dance musical with a strong love story.
The film's climactic dance sequence featuring Swayze and Grey is anything short of spectacular and makes you want to jump out of your seat and start dancing yourself or simply sit there with a big goofy smile on your face wishing that you could dance like that.
"Dirty Dancing" was the surprise box office smash of 1987 and deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Song In A Motion Picture, "I've had the time of my life" perfomed by Warnes and Medly.
www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /DIRTY%20DANCING.html   (553 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing DVD
Dirty Dancing is about a coming of age story about an optimistic 17 year old girl (sweetly acted by Jennifer Grey) who goes on a vacation to a resort and falls in love with a dancing entertainer.
Ok..well...I really liked watching her learn to dance, which is kind of considered a cliche in character development.
A few years ago, I rented Dirty D. on laserdisc (pressing by Image Entertainment) It was SOO bad, the picture grainy, that I turned it off after 10 min.
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 The same old Dirty Dancing - Silver Chips Online
The dancing itself is suitably splendid, a mix between ballroom and salsa, but even that becomes repetitive in the face of witless dialogue and uncharismatic characters.
Bored with dancing that would have made Johnny Castle writhe on the floor in agony, Katey drags her date to a Cuban club, where she finds the locals caught in the beat of the Black Eyed Peas, one of the few positive things about Havana Nights.
dirty dancing 2 was terrible i must admit but thats because the actors were terrible, it was cheesy and the ending sucked.The original dirty dancing is good.
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 Dirty Dancing
Specifically, Francis breaks the resort rules when she befriends the lower class staff, also known as the "Dirty Dancers." She furtively attends several staff parties wearing skimpy outfits and dances provocatively as Johnny’s partner to Rock and Roll rather than attending organized dances wearing evening gowns and dancing the foxtrot to classical music.
Dirty Dancing shows that fathers have a major effect on a girl’s development.
Thus, Dirty Dancing accurately portrays this drastic relationship change and the struggles accompanying the coming of age, thereby increasing its credibility as more than just a shallow love story.
www.unc.edu /~pichaske/DirtyDancingbanswhire.html   (3877 words)

  
 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Dirty Dancing
Certainly scandalous behavior in 1963 when the film is set, the raunchy dirty dancing still works to titillate even if no longer to shock.
Johnny and Penny are dance instructors at a family oriented hotel ostensibly in the Catskills but filmed in North Carolina and Virginia.
As Baby dances on her little toes in her snow-white shoes, her innocence is actuated in ways that a full profile could never accomplish.
www.all-reviews.com /videos/dirty-dancing.htm   (759 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
More a remake than a sequel, Havana Nights takes the Dirty Dancing formula (which is actually "Romeo and Juliet" crossed with "Cinderella" and transplanted into the 1950s) and infuses it with cross-cultural issues.
However, while the strength of the original Dirty Dancing was its magical, climactic "(I'll Have) The Time of My Life" coming-out party, Havana Nights comes close to falling apart in the last ten minutes.
Soon, she's taking dancing lessons from Javier on the side, while concocting deceptions to keep her parents from finding out about a liaison of which they would not approve.
www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/d/dirtydancinghavananights.htm   (903 words)

  
 DIRTY DANCING
I'm embarrassed to say that if you had asked me in 1987 what my favorite movies of year were, DIRTY DANCING would have been one of them.
She begins intense dance training trying very hard to learn all the steps, but it's not easy.
DIRTY DANCING is a fun trip down memory lane, but I'm glad I don't have to stay there.
www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsD/f_dirty_dancing.html   (786 words)

  
 Havana Nights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Schooled by her parents in the art of ballroom dancing, Katey is expected to join the smart set of American teenagers who are the Vendettos' neighbors at the exclusive Hotel Miramar.
During the dance scene where Katie and Javier dance in front of the white screen (with Katie's parents dancing in the film in the background) the straps of Katie's dress of her left shoulder are sometimes up, and sometimes down.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights was shot primarily in San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico's second largest city.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/HavanaNights-1130042/about.php   (5456 words)

  
 DVD Review: Dirty Dancing
Set in the very early Sixties, Jennifer Grey stars as a guest with her parents in a resort hotel who learns that the staff likes to unwind after hours by moving rather uninhibitedly to the latest pop songs, and Patrick Swayze is the most accomplished dancer, who ends up training her to be his partner.
The film’s director, Emile Ardolino, who won an Oscar for a documentary about dance and who directed several other wonderful films, including the outstanding Gypsy remake, before dying all too young in 1993, is the subject of a 13-minute tribute on the second platter.
Finally, the entire 1988 live program, Dirty Dancing in Concert, has also been included, not only for its entertainment value, which is modest, but to reinforce the memory of what a phenomena Dirty Dancing was when it did its fast heel split into the popular culture.
www.moviecitygeek.com /dvd/2004/dirty_dancing.html   (1488 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Dirty Dancing: Ultimate Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The stupendous success of the 1987 rom-com Dirty Dancing took pretty much everyone by surprise — including the film's writer, director, and producers, who'd labored over what they'd assumed (no matter how much they personally loved the project) was just another moderately troubled production that would vanish soon after it hit theaters.
Volunteering to step in as an emergency dance partner when Johnny's childhood friend and partner Penny (Cynthia Rhodes) gets pregnant, Baby grows closer to Johnny as he teaches her how to cha-cha — and finally comes of age when she stands by Johnny when he's falsely accused of stealing from customers.
With a wealth of period music setting the mood and dance sequences that carry the story ever forward without seeming stagy or unnatural, Dirty Dancing is one of those transcendent guilty-pleasure movies that manages to be as timeless as it is entertaining.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/d/dirtydancing.q.shtml   (547 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing mistakes, goofs and bloopers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Continuity: In the last dance scene of the movie, Patrick Swayze jumps down from the stage and the hair on his forehead which was completely dry is suddenly very wet and plastered to his head.
Continuity: During the last dance scene, there is a shot of Baby and Johnny dancing on the floor.
Audio problem: In the scene where Penny and Johnny are teaching Baby their dance routine you see Penny putting on a record, if you look closely you can see that Penny moves the arm to put the record on then right away you see her taking the arm away even though the music has started.
www.moviemistakes.com /film365   (899 words)

  
   Merenguies and Mambos - The Choreography of Dirty Dancing Fanlisting        (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 film that follows Baby Houseman's journey toward womanhood during a summer spent learning how to dance in the Catskills.
Fun Facts: The dance that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey do during the love scene was the choreography they used during their screen test.
Swayze and Grey were joking around in dress rehersal and the director liked the footage so much he kept it in the film....At the end of the "Hungry Eyes" number, Swayze is genuinely annoyed with Grey, who kept breaking up for real and quite by accident as he stroked her arm.
nasty-dress.net /dirty   (461 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Dirty Dancing -- Emile Ardolino - DVD - Wide Screen
In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent.
I loved dirty dancing for so many reasons some of which include the great acting, the excellent plot lines, and the view on the world during the 1960's in america.
I also love the dances and that is why I am going to do the dances with my best friend in my high school cafeteria with a boombox starting with 'Nobody puts baby in the corner' to the lift.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=28485114005   (1060 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The touching and feel-good movie of "Dirty Dancing" was filmed chiefly at the Mountain Lake Resort near Roanoke, Virginia.
All the outdoor dance scenes in the gazebo, some of which were from the angle of the boat dock.
She meets Johnny the hotel dance instructor and is mesmerized by him as well as his dance style.
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 Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is guaranteed to bring out the teen in all of us.
Dirty Dancing is everything that a teenage girl would think is cool.
Add to this that the dancing is risqué, sexual even, and that what awaits her is true love in the form of a gerbil-stuffing bad boy, with a heart of gold who will (spoiler) in the end, throw it all away for her, true love and to teach the world the healing power of dance.
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 Dirty Dancing (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There was so much in it and it dealt with important issues, (that were at the time, 1960's), such as abortion.
It really does take your breath away as the whole choreography of the last dance was done brilliantly, it had you dancing at the end of the film and it really wouldn't surprise me if it influenced people to take up dancing!
Overall Dirty Dancing is a film NOT to be missed and even if half the actors are in the: "Where are they now?" period the actors will always have this superb film in their career!
www.imdb.com /title/tt0092890   (569 words)

  
 reviewjournal.com -- Neon: MOVIE REVIEW: 'Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'
Because this is a "Dirty Dancing" movie, we know there'll be a hotel employee, forbidden to fraternize with guests, who's destined to get up close and personal with our gal Katey.
Swayze, now 51, still dances up a storm in his few brief scenes -- which is more than we can say for Luna and Garai, neither of whom reportedly had any dance background when cast for this movie.
As with the original, this "Dirty Dancing" was inspired by a real-life story.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2004/Feb-27-Fri-2004/weekly/23297890.html   (767 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing Movie Rewind «
Made for a relative pittance by independent studio Vestron, the true story of Dirty Dancing is one of persistence...not least on the part of the lady on who's life the story is (loosely) based.
Often derided by men as the Seminal UltraCheese(tm) teen romantic 'chick flick', Dirty Dancing is one of those movies that became a cliche in itself through its seemingly endless appeal to the fairer sex of all ages.
The re-make of Dirty Dancing was finally released in 2004, but failed to reach the profile of the original.
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 Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Dirty Dancing - Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes
Dirty Dancing is, was, and will always be one of the stupidest movies to ever drip out of Hollywood's backside.
I have not used the phrase "chick flick" yet, and I am trying not to, but, ladies, if you're boyfriend/ husband/steady/blind date/whatever told you he enjoyed Dirty Dancing on his first viewing, he could be telling the truth, but it's doubtful.
I would not be the least bit surprised if you were to tell me that you had to buy another copy of Dirty Dancing 'cause the first one got "accidentally misplaced." Brace yourself, ladies.
www.stairwell.com /doc/exam/dirtdanc.html   (888 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Dirty Dancing [1987]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--it does take place in an era (the early '60s) when it would have.
Dirty Dancing (1987) still stands incredibly today well proving the point critics made about the film at the time of its release about it being a timeless classic!
What truly makes Dirty Dancing absolutley unmissable is the fabulous dancing which is highly erotic though never once tacky and is accompanied by a sizzling soundtrack that helps build the potential atmosphere.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YA8P   (1329 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing Comprehensive Movie Review
Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms, Baby can't wait to be a part of the scence especially when she catches sight of the sexy heart throb Johnny Castle (patrick swayze) the resort dance instructor.
However, all ends well with Jonny and Baby declaring their love by performing 'dirty dancing' in front of everyone and finally Jonny is accepted.
When Johnny's dancing partner ends up pregnant (not by Johnny, though) Baby must be her replacement in all the dancing shows, and Johnny trains her.
www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_3546.asp   (1000 words)

  
 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Review :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The bookish 18-year-old is expected to hang with the other rich American rich kids at the luxurious Havana hotel where she and her family are staying, but instead she finds herself drawn to the proud Javier (Diego Luna), a waiter at the hotel.
As their passion for one another grows, their dance moves begin to meld (sounding familiar?), and when the night of the contest finally arrives, Katey and Javier are ready to win, unaware that the streets of Havana are about to erupt in revolutionary violence.
British actress Garai (I Capture the Castle) isn't nearly as charming a good girl itching to break free as Jennifer Grey was in the original Dirty Dancing, but it's hard to take your eyes off her as she comes alive on the dance floor.
www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1744160   (612 words)

  
 Absoludicrous Video - Learn the Art of Dancing Dirty
Learn the Art of Dancing Dirty, 1988 is an instructional video that has nothing to do with Patrick Swayze, showing you erotic dance moves with the help of two creepy "Dance Instructers" Felix and Marla.
Before the instruction starts, the makers of Learn the Art of Dancing Dirty warn you that you should consult your doctor before you start it or any other dance program.
Because if you're so old or out of shape that this or any other dance program might injure you, the people that will really need a doctor are the ones unlucky enough to see your nasty ass try this in public.
www.seanbaby.com /stupid/dirty.htm   (607 words)

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