Exploring one night, Baby secretly observes Max instructing the waiters, all Ivy League students, to romance the guests' daughters, no matter how unattractive. Jake and Marjorie Houseman, and her older sister Lisa at Kellerman's, an upscale Catskills resort in the Borscht Belt owned by Jake's sarcastic best friend Max.
In the summer of 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman is vacationing with her parents Dr. A made-for-TV remake was also released in 2017. The film's popularity led to a 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America. " (I've Had) The Time of My Life", performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
It earned positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised the performances of Grey and Swayze, and its soundtrack, created by Jimmy Ienner, generated two multi- platinum albums and multiple singles. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.ĭirty Dancing premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 1987, and was released on August 21, 1987, in the United States, earning over $214 million worldwide, and was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. She finished the script in 1985, but management changes at MGM put the film in development hell. She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film It's My Turn, but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became Dirty Dancing. The film was based on screenwriter Bergstein's own childhood. Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it tells the story of "Baby" Frances Houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) at a vacation resort. “When the lake drains – when it actually empties out – it is cleaning itself by moving sediment that has accrued in the bottom of the lake down through that rather complex plumbing system to actually make the lake bigger, deeper, and to keep it clean,” he says.Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. According to Roanoke College environmental studies professor Jon Cawley, Mountain Lake’s basin is the only one in the world that goes through this sort of cycle and has this sort of plumbing system. What happens is fairly simple: water drains out of the lake through several holes. In 2006, it dropped again, and emptied completely for several days, leaving behind dead and rotting fish. It first dropped in 1999, and returned to its normal levels in 2003.
The lake’s water levels have fluctuated dramatically in the 30 years since the film. It’s where Rockette Penny teaches a merengue class, and of course there’s the famous lift scene, where Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey practice their signature dance move in the water (although that scene was actually filmed at Lake Lure, North Carolina).īut today, Mountain Lake is nothing more than a reddish-brown pit, only partially filled with water. This Google satellite view of Mountain Lake shows how far it has receded over time Photograph: The GuardianĪnyone who has seen Dirty Dancing knows that the lake is an integral part of the film: it’s where guests sun themselves while Baby and her sister Lisa try on wigs.
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