![]() Baby steps in, without her family knowing, and has the “time of her life.” Once her family learns about what she’s been up to, they try to stop it however, it’s too late, as she’s fallen in love with Johnny. ![]() Johnny’s dance partner has a sort-of-botched abortion and can’t dance for a few weeks. While on vacation, Baby, the younger daughter, decides to take some dancing lessons and essentially falls for the instructor, Johnny, who is trying to make a living and stay out of trouble. The father’s a doctor, the mother’s a housewife. it’s about a family who vacations in the Catskills in upstate NY in the 1960s/1970s. If you’ve never seen it (what rock do you live under as I need to send you a VHS, as that’s probably the video equipment you’re still using… but then how are you reading this post? Oh now my brain hurts!)…. I have never practiced it tho… either the lifter or the liftee! Have you? ![]() I’ve seen it a few times, love many of the songs and I fully admit, when they do the lift, I am on a bit of a high. But I also recall being asked to close our eyes at a few parts and even asked to leave the room for 5 minutes when the whole abortion discussion came up.Īnyways…trying to stay on track here… I really liked the movie, but I wasn’t a crazy fanatic who fell in love with Patrick Swayze or Jennifer Grey, nor felt the need to watch it every time it was on. Ultimately, because the mothers wanted to watch it, they caved and let us watch it, too. I remember my mom and her friend Joyce discussing whether it was appropriate for me and for Joyce’s daughter, Robin, who was 2-years older than me. I was ten years old and not originally allowed to watch the movie, as it was considered too racy however, my mom later caved when we were visiting with friends one weekend. The original Dirty Dancing movie was a phenomenon when released in 1987. Was there any need to even do a re-make? Let’s dive in to the review… quick side note - I’m not going to do a typical review where I compare and contrast… I’m just throwing a few key thoughts out about the re-make and opening it up to questions and feedback! I wonder why they didn’t advertise this one too much… wait… I know… I had no clue they were doing a re-make of this movie until a few days before it aired, and I only knew because I happened to catch a quick promo in between watching on TV shows. 3- of 5 stars to the re-make of the film Dirty Dancing, just released on ABC TV in May, 2017.
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