Overview
It's summer, 1963. Baby, 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, and is mesmerized by him as well as his dance style. She soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil - in dance and in love. Academy Awards: Best Song ("(I've Had) The Time of My Life").
Awards:
1987 - Academy Awards - Best Original Song - Winner
Main Cast & Crew:
Emile Ardolino - Director
Jennifer Grey
Patrick Swayze
Jerry Orbach
Cynthia Rhodes
Jack Weston
Jane Bruckner
Charles Honi Coles
Cousin Brucie Morrow
Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow
Charles "Honi" Coles
Details
- Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen)
- Run Time: 105
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 012236146995
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: May 2010
Movie Reviews
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.
Notes:
Copyright 1987 Vestron Pictures, Inc.
Reviews:
"...Nicely bittersweet....A drive and a pulse that give the film real excitement..." - 08/21/1987 New York Times, p.C3
"...Some nice dance sequences and a likable performance by Jennifer Grey make the film more than watchable..." - 05/20/1987 Variety
"...Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sexual....Grey and Swayze are tough, thoughtful, lovely actors..." - 08/21/1987 Los Angeles Times, p.C1
"[A] slumber-party classic..." - 04/15/2005 Entertainment Weekly, p.48
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his '80s classic transcends cynicism to give warm-fuzzies the world over." - 03/01/2007 Total Film, p.46
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hanks to a fabulous soundtrack and enthusiastic performances, it's still as much fun as ever." - 12/01/2007 Ultimate DVD, p.98
“[Swayze’s] sweaty, smoldering, swivel-hipped rebel Johnny Castle still comes across as James Dean in snug slacks.” -- Grade: B - 05/13/2010 Entertainment Weekly
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