Dirty Dancing
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Finally, after 23 years, I got around to watching the 1987 Patrick Swayze movie, Dirty Dancing.
I’d always avoided it because I had no interest in watching a chick flick about a 16 year old girl falling in love with a dance instructor at a Butlins style American holiday camp..
But after a stream of guys films, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Parker, Chinatown and All the Presidents Men, it was time to give my wife a break, and watch a girly romance film.
I was actually pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t the cheezy, falling in parentally disapproving love, 80s predictable romp I was expecting. Well, alright it is, but in a fairly ok, kind of way.
The film is set in the 1950s and sees younger daughter “Baby” (Jennifer Grey) go with her family to a rich holiday resort in the woods by a lake somewhere in the US for a couple of weeks during the summer, where she discovers the staff party – the staff who consist entirely of professional trained dancers it seems. Is this where the students from Fame go for their summer jobs? – and most importantly she meets the good looking but arrogant Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), who predictably she falls for but he doesn’t like her as she’s a rich, spoilt daddys girl.
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