Dirty Dancing Soundtrack

Synopsis: In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful ac
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Emile Ardolino
Production: Vestron Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
1987
100 min
$1,899,606
5,874 Views


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1Be My Baby2:39
2Hey Baby2:23
3Hungry Eyes4:08
4In The Still Of The Night3:06
5Love Is Strange2:54
6Overload3:41
7She's Like The Wind3:52
8Stay1:35
9The Time Of My Life4:50
10Where Are You Tonight4:01
11Yes3:17
12You Don't Own Me3:01

Eleanor Bergstein

Eleanor Bergstein (born 1938) is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood. more…

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