Dirty Dancing (1987)
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
1963: a doctor takes his wife and two daughters to a borsch belt resort where the youngest makes unwelcome affiliations with the entertainment staff and helps inaugur a new kind of dancing.
Review:
One of many dance films of the eighties (Flashdance, Shag, Hairspray) and the most successful, especially on video. It has been compared to Saturday Night Fever for its climactic dance sequence, but elsewhere the effect is totally different, with manipulatively broad characterisation and soap-like plot mechanics. As such it epitomizes Hollywood in the eighties as much as Fever did in the seventies and at least shows consummate professionalism in stirring up emotion.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
1963: a doctor takes his wife and two daughters to a borsch belt resort where the youngest makes unwelcome affiliations with the entertainment staff and helps inaugur a new kind of dancing.
Review:
One of many dance films of the eighties (Flashdance, Shag, Hairspray) and the most successful, especially on video. It has been compared to Saturday Night Fever for its climactic dance sequence, but elsewhere the effect is totally different, with manipulatively broad characterisation and soap-like plot mechanics. As such it epitomizes Hollywood in the eighties as much as Fever did in the seventies and at least shows consummate professionalism in stirring up emotion.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston
Synopsis:
1963: a doctor takes his wife and two daughters to a borsch belt resort where the youngest makes unwelcome affiliations with the entertainment staff and helps inaugur a new kind of dancing.
Review:
One of many dance films of the eighties (Flashdance, Shag, Hairspray) and the most successful, especially on video. It has been compared to Saturday Night Fever for its climactic dance sequence, but elsewhere the effect is totally different, with manipulatively broad characterisation and soap-like plot mechanics. As such it epitomizes Hollywood in the eighties as much as Fever did in the seventies and at least shows consummate professionalism in stirring up emotion.