Well, my ex was in love with patrick swayzee-what’s his career like now? likewise, jennifer gray-is she still acting? The movie was made for teenage girls-that was the target audience, and it succeeded.
I can’t believe I am going to admit this. I own Black Dog. Cause it’s got Swayze, Meatloaf and Randy Travis.
Alcohol. Alcohol makes it better.
Was Patrick Swayze ever able to contort his face into a second expression, ever?
Well, speaking as a guy, the movie’s not All That, but man, it has a great soundtrack. it was on recently (of course) and I was jukin’ and jivin’ all over the place.
Yes, but what about the appeal of Grease 2? Lady Zakalwe has a fondness for it that almost made me reconsider my proposal.*
*Not really
Pistols at dawn, sir! I submit that Point Break is far superior to Ghost. Plus it has Keanu!
Wow. I’m 42, and apparently completely missed the boat on this movie. I’ve never seen it and never had the desire too. Footloose, on the other hand–Well, Kevin Bacon’s much better than Patrick Swayze at everything. And the soundtrack was soooo much better.
Yes!
I remember seeing this, with Conan promoting Dirty Dancing as the Greatest Movie Ever—until it actually did get re-released, whereupon he admitted that the movie actually kinda sucks.
In other words, the OP’s theory about “some bizarro campaign” is essentially correct.
A-HA!!!
I knew it!!!
So… it’s all Conan’s fault, eh? Probably his revenge for me asking “is he still on the air?” 
No, no. It was Conan’s fault 10 years ago. Unless he started up the campaign again and I somehow missed it.
A friend and I actually went to the rerelease in 1997. Later I bought a one of the rerelease posters (“Have the time of your life…again!”) and it now hangs in my garage. It makes me smile every morning before I leave for work. Not because it’s necessarily a good movie, but it’s a fun movie.
I hear you on that. I was in the target audience (16 year old boy) but I’d also grown up with musicals, and thought it was mighty bizarre that Joel Grey’s daughter AND Jerry Orbach were both in the same movie with the overacted guy from ‘Red Dawn.’ Still amuses me, really.
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I’ve never seen the movie, but I was under the impression that it was a chick flick.
Who do you think he was trying to score with?
At 16 “chick flick” = “date movie” = “target audience”.
I have to say, I want to smack whoever just released a cover of “She’s Like the Wind”. I’m not saying the original is good, but the cover is worse.
Susan
You are OBVIOUSLY forgetting Red Dawn, the movie that made us hate commies. (More than usual I mean)
I have no use for the movie, but I would have bent Baby over a corner in a heartbeat.
Susan Foster-- Damn you. I have that song in my head now and it’s up there in my list of 10-most-irritating-songs-ever.
He appeared, heavily plastic-surgeried, as a dance instructor in **Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights ** which featured the lovely Diego Luna from Y Tu Mama Tambien. (What can I say, I have a friend who loves dance movies even more than I do.)
Jennifer Grey had a nose job which as mentioned, changed her appearance drastically. She has appeared in a couple of short-lived sit-coms.
I remember watching Dirty Dancing at a slumber party when I was ten-years-old. We also watched Mannequin and Three Men and a Baby.
We watched Mannequin twice. The scene where the mannequin falls on the guy will stay with me forever.
Is it mostly on WE? Because they have a series also called Dirty Dancing, a reality show based on the film.
I originally thought this Onion article was about Beastmaster (the movie, not the TV series inspired by it), but I’m linking to it anyway, because it’s a good example of what The Onion does best: Kickboxer, Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, To Continue In A Moment
I’ve never felt that way before. I swear.
Didn’t she really, honestly go in for a genuine deviated septum and the jerk decided to “fix” her while she was under? I thought I remembered something about her suing him because once she woke up with a new nose, she couldn’t get cast because no one recognized her any more. Or maybe I’m just making it all up, as I can’t find any cites anymore (although there’s mention everywhere that she’s said it was “a mistake”, it’s unclear whether the mistake was hers in getting it or the doctor’s in doing it.)