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Dirty Dancing (1987)
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
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Robbie Gould
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Director:
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Trivia
Max Cantor (Robbie Gould) was the son of Broadway Producer Arthur Cantor. They lived in the Dakota Apartments on West 72nd in New York City with John Lennon and other residents. Max attended Harvard University and died of a heroin overdose at the age of thirty-two.
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Radio disc jockey:
Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody's in love. So cousins, here's a great song from The Four Seasons.
Baby:
That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and ...
Goofs
When Baby is talking to her father as he sits on the porch, his jacket collar repeatedly swaps between being down and up between shots.
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Wipe Out
Written by Robert Berryhill, Patrick Connolly, Jim Fuller, and Ronald Wilson
Performed by The Surfaris
Courtesy of MCA Records
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Genres
Drama | Music | RomanceDetails
Release Date:
21 August 1987Language
English
Country of Origin
USAFilming Locations
Appalachian region, Virginia, USABox Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
DEM 335,283 (West Germany) (15 October 1987)
Gross:
$63,952,836 (USA) (12 October 1997)
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