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Name: Dirty Dancing
Director: Emile Ardolino
Genre: drama, music, romance
Released: 1987
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 7.1

Dirty Dancing has an iRankMovies score of 70.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Dirty Dancing (1987)

First dance. First love. The time of your life.

Release:1987

Runtime:1h 40m

Country:United States

Director:Emile Ardolino

Language:English

Genre

DramaMusicRomance

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Keywords

HotelDaughterDancingSecret LoveRobbery Sibling RelationshipSummer CampDancing Master

iRank71

Dirty Dancing rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 278K votes

Rotten Tomatoes73%

Metacritic65%

TMDb7.3/10· 7K votes

With 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Dirty Dancing

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Cast of Dirty Dancing

Jennifer Grey
as Baby Houseman
Patrick Swayze
as Johnny Castle
Jerry Orbach
as Jake Houseman
Cynthia Rhodes
as Penny Johnson
Jack Weston
as Max Kellerman
Jane Brucker
as Lisa Houseman
Kelly Bishop
as Marjorie Houseman
Lonny Price
as Neil Kellerman
Max Cantor
as Robbie Gould
C
Charles "Honi" Coles
as Tito Suarez
Neal Jones
as Billy Kostecki
"Cousin Brucie" Morrow
as Magician

Dirty Dancing facts

Budget: $6M
Box office: $214.6M
Collection: Dirty Dancing Collection

Our take on Dirty Dancing

Emile Ardolino's 1987 romance follows seventeen-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman, who expects a dull family summer in the Catskills and instead finds herself filling in for a professional dancer and falling unexpectedly in love. Built around music, movement and a coming-of-age spark, it's an earnest crowd-pleaser about first passion and stepping out of your comfort zone. It suits viewers who want warmth, dancing and romance over grit or complexity, and it lands especially well as comfort viewing. If you're in the mood for a nostalgic summer-set love story carried by its rhythm and chemistry, this delivers. Come for the feel-good energy and the pull of the dance floor rather than plot surprises.

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