Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing

I just finished watching this movie - for the first time! That's right, I had never seen it before. Thank you Shannon. What a delightful movie. It's Grease meets West Side Story meets Shall We Dance and it rightly deserves to have become the iconic phenomenon it undoubtedly is. A pretty setting, sympathetic characters, a realistic plot with the pivotal issue sensitively handled and firmly underpinning the rest of the story. The beautiful, talented and sadly missed Patrick Swayze immortalised at his best, matched with a strong young socially conscious heroine who takes action, encountering the real world divide between good and bad, rich and poor, perhaps for the first time in her life. Practical magic - this girl is real. Beautifully under-acted for the most part, with gorgeous clothes and as befitting a dance movie, great music. I'll be watching this one again and again, in between learning to dance.