Dirty Dancing 🎥 1987 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In the summer of 1963, teenager Frances “Baby” Houseman discover Dirty Dancing while vacationing with her family cardiologist father Jake, mother Marge, and older sister Lisa at Kellerman’s, an upscale Catskills resort in the Borscht Belt owned by Jake’s sarcastic best friend Max. Exploring one night, Baby secretly observes Max instructing the waiters, all Ivy League students, to romance the guests’ daughters, no matter how unattractive. Max also demeans the working-class entertainment staff, including Johnny Castle, one of the dance instructors.

Baby is attracted to Johnny and dances briefly with him after his kindhearted cousin, Billy, introduces them at a secret “dirty dancing” party for resort staff. Max’s grandson Neil flirts with Baby in the meantime. Baby learns Johnny’s dance partner Penny is pregnant by Robbie, a waiter and womanizer who attends the Yale School of Medicine and has turned his eye to Lisa. When Robbie refuses to help Penny, Baby borrows money from her father, without explaining why, to pay for Penny to have an abortion. At first, Penny declines to accept the money for the abortion, as it would cause her and Johnny to miss a performance at a nearby resort, costing them the season’s salary, but Baby volunteers to stand in for Penny.

During her dance sessions with Johnny, they develop a mutual attraction, and despite their failure to execute a climactic lift, Johnny and Baby’s performance is successful. Back at Kellerman’s, Penny is badly injured by the shady abortion, so Baby enlists her father’s help to stabilize Penny. Angered by Baby’s deception, and assuming it was Johnny who got Penny pregnant, Dr. Houseman commands Baby to stay away from them. Baby sneaks off to apologize to Johnny for her father’s treatment, but Johnny feels he deserves it due to his lower status; Baby reassures him of his worth, declaring her love.

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