Dirty Dancing [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent. Baby doesn't get along with her older sister, Lisa (Jane Brucker), and she's bored to tears by most of the older guests at the resort. However, one night Baby hears what sounds like a party going on in the employee's dormitory, and she pokes her head in to discover most of the hotel staff enjoying the sort of close dancing that would get you kicked out of the senior prom in no time flat. Baby is particularly struck by handsome Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dancer in the resort's floor show, and falls head over heels in love, wanting to be near him. When Johnny's dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), finds herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn her steps and take her place; however, Baby's father, Dr. Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings. Dirty Dancing was a surprise box-office hit, and the soundtrack album was an even bigger success, spawning several hit singles and inspiring a top-drawing concert tour featuring several of its artists. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Subtitle: Eng/Spa
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: PCM Stereo
• Features:
  • 1080P High Definition
  • Newly Remastered 16x9 Widescreen Version
  • Newly Remastered Audio: 6.1 PCM Audio (Uncompressed), 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX Audio
  • English and Spanish Subtitles
  • Commentary With Eleanor Bergstein (Writer, Co-Producer)
  • Multivoice Commentary With Kenny Ortega, Miranda Garrison, Jeff Jur, Hilary Rosenfeld and David Chapman
  • Dirty Dancing 20th Anniversary Pop-Up Trivia Track
  • Dirty Dancing With Patrick Swayze
  • Tribute to Jerry Orbach
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Alternate Scenes
  • Extended Scenes
  • Outtakes
  • Original Screen Tests
  • Multiangle Dance Sequences
  • The Classic Story on Stage
  • Photo Gallery
  • Jennifer Grey Interview
  • Eleanor Bergstein Interview
  • Kenny Ortega Interview
  • Emile Ardolino Tribute
  • "Hungry Eyes" Music Video
  • "She Like the Wind" Music Video
  • "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Music Video
  • And More...
  • Special Features Presented in High Definition Resolution.

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Won Best Song - 1987 (Don Markowitz, John de Nicola, Frankie Previte)

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Won Best Original Song - 1987 (Don Markowitz, John de Nicola, Frankie Previte)
•     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 1987

• Independent Spirit Awards

•     Won Best First Feature - 1987 (Emile Ardolino)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Patrick Swayze - Johnny Castle
       Jennifer Grey - Frances "Baby" Houseman
       Jerry Orbach - Dr. Jake Houseman
       Cynthia Rhodes - Penny Johnson
       Jack Weston - Max Kellerman
       Jane Brucker - Lisa Houseman
       Kelly Bishop - Marjorie Houseman
       Lonny Price - Neil Kellerman
       Max Cantor - Robbie Gould
       Charles "Honi" Coles - Tito Suarez
       Neal Jones - Billy Kostecki
       Alvin Myerovich - Mr. Schumacher

• Director:

  Emile Ardolino

• Producer:

  Linda Gottlieb

• Screenwriter:

  Eleanor Bergstein

• Cinematographer:

  Jeff Jur

• Songwriter:

  Carole King, Martyn Baker, Jeff Barry, Erich Bulling, Neal Cavanaugh, Bruce Channel, Melissa Cobb, Bob Crewe, John D'Andrea, John de Nicola, Terry Fryer, Bob Gaudio, Gerry Goffin, Berry Gordy, Jr., Tom Graf, Ellie Greenwich

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Michael Lloyd

• Songwriter:

  Marko Luciani, J. Madara, Don Markowitz

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Morris

• Songwriter:

  R. Parris, Lou Perez, Frankie Previte

• Featured Music:

  Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson

• Songwriter:

  Bert Russell, Mark Scola, Eddie Bo Smith, Jr., Phil Spector, The Surfaris, Patrick Swayze, Doug White, Stacy Widelitz, Maurice Williams, Alfie Zappacosta

• Editor:

  Peter C. Frank, Farrel Jane Levy

• Production Designer:

  David Chapman

• Art Director:

  Mark Haack, Stephen Lineweaver

• Co-producer:

  Eleanor Bergstein

• Associate Producer:

  Doro Bachrach

• Executive Producer:

  Mitchell Cannold, Steven E. Reuther

• Set Designer:

  Clay Griffith

• Costume Designer:

  Hilary M. Rosenfeld

• Makeup:

  David Forrest, Gilbert La Chapelle

• First Assistant Director:

  Herbert W. Gains

• Choreography:

  Kenny Ortega

• Casting:

  Bonnie Timmermann

• Production Assistant:

  John Marston

REVIEW:

• Featuring Patrick Swayze's heat-seeking pelvis, Jennifer Grey's original nose, and lavish helpings of dance-floor sensuality and coming-of-age nostalgia, Dirty Dancing was one of the great guilty pleasures of the 1980s. A genuine sleeper hit, it became an instant cult classic. For anyone who grew up during the 1980s, the film occupies a niche not far removed from that occupied by such Brat Pack favorites as The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire; seeing it was a sort of rite of passage. When it comes down to it, Dirty Dancing, while not exactly an example of great filmmaking, is a prime example of great entertainment. Like any number of coming-of-age dramas, what it lacks in finesse it makes up for in heart. As effusive and well-meaning as its teenage protagonist, Dirty Dancing is an unabashedly romantic exercise in both the suspension of disbelief and the healing powers of well-choreographed nostalgia. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi