Product Information
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.
Product Identifiers
Producer Linda Gottlieb, Eleanor Bergstein
EAN 5060052415912
Product Key Features
Format DVD
Release Year 2008
Genre Drama
Leading Role Neal Jones, Garry Goodrow, Jennifer Grey, Max Cantor, Cynthia Rhodes, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Wayne Knight, Miranda Garrison, Jack Weston, Lonny Price, Kelly Bishop
Rating 12A/12
Language English
Hearing impaired Subtitles: English (Feature Only)
Additional Product Features
Editor Peter Frank
Running Time 96 Minutes
Director Emile Ardolino
Additional Roles by Neal Jones, Garry Goodrow, Max Cantor, Jerry Orbach, Wayne Knight, Miranda Garrison, Jack Weston, Lonny Price, Kelly Bishop
Score Composer John Morris
Sub-Genre General
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey star in this classic 1980s romantic comedy drama directed by Emile Ardolino. Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey) is a teenage girl on holiday with her family at a resort in the Catskill Mountains. Stumbling upon an off-limits employees-only party, she witnesses the staff getting down and dirty to the R&B hits of the day. The hotel"s dance instructor Johnny (Swayze) catches her eye in particular, and, despite their differences in class, age and experience, the couple begin to fall in love. The film won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "(I"ve Had) the Time of My Life".
