Review of Dirty Dancing (1987) by Daniel P — 10 Mar 2013
Completely anachronistic boilerplate dance film: young person - man this time, played by Patrick Swayze - of lower social class wins heart of upper-class young person (woman, Jennifer Grey) through the power of dance.
.. or something. What made this movie watchable for me was the particularity of its setting; I don't know of any other films set in the Catskills in the 1960s, and buried within it is a story of (Jewish) identity and coming of age, told nostalgically and enjoyably.
The bubble bursts when a 1980s song drives the film's finale - selling the soundtrack more than the story, to say the least - but, (along with Saturday Night Fever), it cast the mold for a certain kind of film: the summer sing-and-dance blockbuster.
Essential viewing, unfortunately - even for guys like me who don't want to admit it,.
This review of Dirty Dancing (1987) was written by Daniel P on 10 Mar 2013.
Dirty Dancing has generally received positive reviews.
Was this review helpful?
