geregisseerd door Alan Parker
met Irene Cara, Lee Curreri en Laura Dean
Een groep jongeren wordt aangenomen op een school voor toneel, dans en zang. Vier van deze jongeren worden gevolgd in de keiharde wereld waar alleen perfectie mogelijk is.
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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.
geregisseerd door Emile Ardolino
met Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey en Jerry Orbach
Zomer 1963. De 17-jarige naïeve Frances 'Baby' Houseman brengt met haar ouders en haar oudere zus Marjorie de vakantie door op het resort van het hotel Catshill. Baby ontmoet daar de verveelde dansleraar van het hotel Johnny Castle. Johnny brengt Baby 'dirty dancing' bij, ze wordt zijn pupil en ze zet haar eerste schreden in de liefde.
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In the 1960s, 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, 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...