It was August 21 when Dirty Dancing made its way into theaters…That was the summer of 1987, when everybody called Jennifer Grey Baby, and it didn't occur to her to mind. With a budget of $6 million, the film danced its way into the hearts of many a movie-goer, becoming one of the classic romantic films of the decade and a dance-focused love story that many dance movies that followed would likely aspire to be
Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, Dirty Dancing starts with a girl. A college-bound teenager living in the early '60s, who's on the verge of adulthood and ripe to fall in love as she travels to Kellermans, a Catskills resort. Jennifer Grey's Frances "Baby" Houseman is introduced to us as a sweet Daddy's girl, with good grades and an optimistic outlook on the world. "Our Baby's gonna change the world," her father tells Max. And I like to think that someday she did. But first, her eyes are opened when she she finds herself carrying a watermelon across a bridge and locking eyes with Johnny Castle, a dance instructor who dismisses her as just another spoiled, rich girl. Of course, there's more to both of them than meets the eye and the two fall in love when Johnny is tasked with teaching Baby to dance.
Baby's coming of age story is the heart of the film. And what girl couldn't identify with it on some level? Especially the good girls who believed there might be a handsome Johnny Castle out there willing to show her some moves.
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