Teenage titillation for girls, circa 1963. Orbach is a New York doctor visiting a Catskill Mountains resort hotel with his wife Bishop and two daughters, Grey--known as Baby--and Brucker. Baby, a teenage activist, is soon bored and goes to the off-limits employees' area, where the hotel
staff are engaging in "dirty dancing"--bodies rubbing and undulating around each other to pulsating music. There she meets the hotel's resident swain, Patrick Swayze, who with his partner, Cynthia Rhodes, gives dancing lessons to the guests. Although they come from two different worlds, the two
fall in love.
Grey is Joel Grey's daughter and she acquits herself adequately. Swayze...
Released:
1987
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins