Dirty Dancing Page #2

Synopsis: In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful ac
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Emile Ardolino
Production: Vestron Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
1987
100 min
$1,899,606
5,199 Views


in their basements back home.

Wanna try it?

Come on, Baby.

Can you imagine dancing like this

on the main floor...

home of the family fox-trot?

Max would close

the place down first.

That's my cousin, Johnny Castle.

He got me the job here.

- They look great together.

- Yeah.

You'd think they were

a couple, wouldn't you?

- Aren't they?

- No, not since we were kids.

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Yo, cousin, what's she doing here?

She came with me.

She's with me.

I carried a watermelon.

I carried a watermelon?

Bend your knees. Down.

Watch. Watch my eyes.

Good.

That's better.

Good. Now roll this way.

Now watch.

Look.

Love man!

Ladies, join our hair-raising

wig show.

Try your Sandra Dee,

Jackie Kennedy...

or Elizabeth Taylor-Cleopatra wig.

- I'll knock with three.

- Look at that cute fella.

Look at these hands.

They're golden hands.

My God, it's Cleopatra!

I feel like such an ""asp"".

You look ten years younger.

At 10:
.15, by the pool,

we have calisthenics.

Then on the west porch, we have

a symposium by Rabbi Maurice Sherman...

on the psychology

of insult comedians.

So I say, ""Ask not what your waiter

can do for you...

but what you can do

for your waiter.""

If tips keep up, I'll have enough

for my Alfa Romeo.

That's my favorite car.

Ladies, you look very lovely.

Baby, would you cover for me tonight?

Tell Mom and Dad I went to lie down.

Where are you going?

To the golf course. There's

a pretty view from the first tee.

Good. Thanks.

So you were really a Rockette?

I think you're a wonderful dancer.

Yeah? Well, my mother kicked me out

when I was 16.

I've been dancing ever since. It's the

only thing I ever wanted to do anyway.

I envy you.

- Aren't you dancing, Doc?

- We're waiting for a waltz.

Hi, Max. Aren't my dance lessons

starting to pay off?

You look great, Vivian!

Terrific!

That's Vivian Pressman,

one of the bungalow bunnies.

That's what we call the women

who stay here all week.

The husbands only come up

on weekends.

Moe Pressman's a big card player.

He'll join our game.

- Moe coming up on Friday?

- Friday.

He's away a lot. I know.

It's a hardship.

Where's Penny?

Everybody's been asking for her.

What do you mean, where's Penny?

She's taking a break.

As long as it's not

an all-night break.

Come on, doll. Let's take a walk.

I love to watch your hair

blowing in the breeze.

Maybe my parents

are looking for me.

Baby, don't worry.

If they think you're with me, they'll be

the happiest parents at Kellerman's.

I have to say it.

- I'm known as the catch of the county.

- I'm sure you are.

Last week I took a girl away

from Jamie, the lifeguard.

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Eleanor Bergstein

Eleanor Bergstein (born 1938) is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood. more…

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