Dirty Dancing

About Dirty Dancing

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 music romance film directed by Emile Ardolino. Released in August 1987, it runs 100 minutes.

The film is filed under audacious, daughter, dancing, and summer camp.

Jennifer Grey stars as Baby Houseman, Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle, Jerry Orbach as Jake Houseman, and Cynthia Rhodes as Penny Johnson. The screenplay is by Eleanor Bergstein. It streams on Sling TV Orange and Blue and YouTube TV in the United States.

Mean Girls, The Edge of Seventeen, and Boogie Nights make useful companions to Dirty Dancing, all filed under coming of age and teenage girl. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 6,698 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.