Dirty Dancing: The Ultimate Edition [2 Discs] DVD

Dirty Dancing
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, All Movie Guide

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

Crew Stephen Lineweaver - Art Director Mark Haack - Art Director Doro Bachrach - Associate Producer Bonnie Timmermann - Casting Kenny Ortega - Choreography Eleanor Bergstein - Co-producer Hilary M. Rosenfeld - Costume Designer Herbert W. Gains - First Assistant Director Emile Ardolino - Director Peter C. Frank - Editor Farrel Jane Levy - Editor Steven E. Reuther - Executive Producer Mitchell Cannold - Executive Producer John Morris - Composer (Music Score) Michael Lloyd - Musical Direction/Supervision Phil Spector - Songwriter Marko Luciani - Songwriter J. Madara - Songwriter Alfie Zappacosta - Songwriter Don Markowitz - Songwriter R. Parris - Songwriter Maurice Williams - Songwriter Lou Perez - Songwriter Frankie Previte - Songwriter Stacy Widelitz - Songwriter Doug White - Songwriter Bert Russell - Songwriter Patrick Swayze - Songwriter The Surfaris - Songwriter Eddie Bo Smith, Jr. - Songwriter Mark Scola - Songwriter Carole King - Songwriter Bob Crewe - Songwriter John D'Andrea - Songwriter John de Nicola - Songwriter Terry Fryer - Songwriter Bruce Channel - Songwriter Bob Gaudio - Songwriter Neal Cavanaugh - Songwriter Gerry Goffin - Songwriter Berry Gordy, Jr. - Songwriter Martyn Baker - Songwriter Jeff Barry - Songwriter Melissa Cobb - Songwriter Ellie Greenwich - Songwriter Erich Bulling - Songwriter Tom Graf - Songwriter Gilbert La Chapelle - Makeup David Forrest - Makeup David Chapman - Production Designer Peter C. Frank - Cinematographer Jeff Jur - Cinematographer Linda Gottlieb - Producer Clay Griffith - Set Designer Eleanor Bergstein - Screenwriter John Marston - Production Assistant Smokey Robinson - Featured Music Otis Redding - Featured Music

Dirty Dancing
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, All Movie Guide
 

Don Markowitz: Academy, Best Song (winner) Don Markowitz: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (winner) Frankie Previte: Academy, Best Song (winner) Frankie Previte: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (winner) John de Nicola: Academy, Best Song (winner) John de Nicola: Golden Globe, Best Original Song (winner)

Golden Globe, Best Film (Musical or Comedy) (nominated) Independent Spirit Award, Best First Feature (winner)

General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DTS-ESD: True 6.1 system. Rear center channel is separately encoded into the DTS soundtrack. DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo DD-EX: Dolby Digital Surround EX (simulated 6.1) Additional Features: cc Newly remastered 16 x 9 feature 6.1 DTS-ES digital discrete surround 5.1 Dolby-EX Digital surround audio 2.0 Dolby Digital audio Jennifer Grey DVD introduction Commentary track with writer/co-producer Eleanor Bergstein Jennifer Grey screen test Multivoice commentary with Kenny Ortega (choreographer), Miranda Garrison (assistant choreographer and actress Vivian Pressman in the film), Jeff Jur (director of photography), Hilary Rosenfeld (costume design), and David Chapman (production designer) Jennifer Grey interview Miranda Garrison interview Kenny Ortega interview Eleanor Bergstein interview Emile Ardolino tribute Dirty Dancing Live in Concert "Hungry Eyes" music video "She's Like the Wind" music video "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" music video Interactive menus Theatrical trailer Trailer gallery Trivia track Scene selections Spanish and English subtitles Closed captions DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1: Alternate Wide Screen MPAA Rating: PG13 DVD Discs Included: 2 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 105 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- Dirty Dancing [WS] 1. Main Title [2:02] 2. A Summer at Kellerman's [3:38] 3. Some Staff Rules [2:09] 4. One Cornell of a Grandson [5:30] 5. No Guests Allowed [4:52] 6. "I Carried a Watermelon" [2:36] 7. Wigs and Other False Impressions [1:38] 8. The Catch of the Day [3:14] 9. Penny's Problems [3:58] 10. Miss Fix-It Fills In [3:43] 11. Mambo 101 [6:07] 12. Lifts and Balance [5:14] 13. "I'm So Scared, Baby" [2:14] 14. The Show at the Sheldrake [2:33] 15. A Job Well Done [:57] 16. The Responsible Party [3:01] 17. Everything and Nothing [:16] 18. Mixed Up with the Guests [6:40] 19. Use or Be Used [2:31] 20. Loverboy in Hiding [3:33] 21. Slumming with Robbie [4:30] 22. Lining Up the Entertainment [1:34] 23. Johnny's Alibi [4:31] 24. Never Sorry [5:04] 25. "It's All Slipping Away" [3:26] 26. The Time of Their Life [4:33] 27. End Credits [6:45]