Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6953 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-12-01
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

DVD Description
The box set includes:

• Nightie
• Washbag
• Eye mask
• Deleted and extended scenes
• Outtakes
• Interviews
• Multi angle dance sequences
• Commentaries and so much more (including the now infamous 'deleted scene!')

Synopsis
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend Penny is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get an abortion. This leaves Johnny a solo act--until Baby agrees to take Penny's place. She has to learn how to dance first, however, and as Johnny teaches her the choreography's sexy, seductive moves, the two fall in love. But Baby's father believes that Johnny is the creep who got Penny pregnant, and he furiously orders Baby to end the relationship. Baby knows that Johnny's innocent--and with her feisty idealism and his dance talent, the two will prove to Baby's father that their love is worth fighting for.

Customer Reviews

Sincere apologies from a young man
I hold my hand up and take the flack. For so long I have been under the impression that Dirty Dancing is just a cheesy film that encourages girls and women to guzzle down excessive amount of Rose', whilst sighing to a broody Patrick Swayze and becoming hedonistic over the classic soundtrack...

... wait a second, it is good afterall! Though I personally find Jennifer Gray 'my type'.

Something of a low-budget film from 1987, it's quite funny how what was almost an incinerated roll of film that would provide an alibi for an Insurance scam (due to the intense negativity post production!) turned out to not only become the best sold VHS in the world, but generate a double platinum soundtrack-album, and capture the imaginations of young people still to this day, 22 years on.

It should also be remembered that Tom Cruise (yes, that little annoying guy) was up there flying planes around the same time too, whilst making motorbikes look cool because he didn't wear a helmet. So what do these films, or indeed the era have in common?

Dirty Dancing builds a love story between the chemistry of 17 year old 'Baby' (Jennifer Grey), who has just met a working-class Dancer at a holiday camp called 'Danny' (Patrick Swayze). From the start, although many cliches exist, they are not blatant enough to become patronizing - in this films case, they are there to help represent the development of the 'teenager', and the differences of attitude between social classes.

The use of imagery in this film is what I've found incredibly fascinating. Much of it is subliminal; you ask someone why they like Dirty Dancing, and they'll probably reply with "I can't explain it... It's just lovely". Thats because many of the shots are so cleverly tied in that they make the hair stand up. A combination of perfectly suited music and the realization of Baby's maturing makes this a quite heart-warming movie.

The underlying theme of Baby's move from adolescence into adulthood is something that has rarely been matched, though other classic films have made good efforts (Uncle Buck, Ferris Buellers Day Off...). The final scene of the theme see's Baby hoisted up into the air in one careful dance move; an fantastic signifier for her 'ascendance' into a new world of being an adult.

As said before, the music is some of the most memorable in Hollywood - their isn't a single song you would cast away from the playlist. "I've had the time of my life" is possibly one of the most feel good pieces of music of all time, ticking all the boxes for a timeless sound that followed not just the film set in 1963, but still now in 2009, sounding as fresh as ever.

So there you have it - 20 year old male Uni student who still finds Tom and Jerry funny. If I can enjoy this, then what's stopping you?

I only have one favour in return... Own up to it like me!

brilliant
this is the perefct night in pack for girls to reminice about the good times, enjoy a relaxing night in with this dvd pack and forget your worries.

xmas present
ordered for my daughter at christmas. it was every thing it said it was. she loved it.