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This Tempting Madness
Film
FilmPG-131987
Dirty Dancing
Directed by Emile Ardolino
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love. From TMDB
172 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 38 | 5 | 100 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| TMDB reviews * | 3 | 0 | 2 |
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Dirty Dancing is a 1987 drama music romance film, directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze and Jerry Orbach.
- 164 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Aug 14, 2016 to Nov 5, 2026
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60 of 172 · most liked firstSavannah Bananas baseball team performing a choreographed dance routine inspired by the movie "Dirty Dancing" during a game. #TuesdayFun
neutral · AI labelView post →My movie club just watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which was mostly listening to people younger than that era be nostalgic about it but anyway... THERE ARE ALMOST NO FILMS THAT HAVE AN ABORTION PLOT POINT. Like this, and Dirty Dancing, are by (so so so) far the biggest. Part of our problem.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Star Trek II" and "Dirty Dancing" are among the 25 films selected for preservation this year in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, the library announced on Tuesday. Here are the other new additions.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Dirty Dancing for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →I was a big Dirty Dancing fan growing up, loved the soundtrack and the big dance numbers and the fun line readings. I watched it with someone I was dating as an adult and she was like "So this is a movie about a sex worker sleeping with a child while his first partner gets an illegal abortion?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Dirty Dancing is a great example of a movie people saw as kids and missed a bunch of the plot, I saw it for the first time as an adult and was like “oh so this is about abortion?”
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s feature film, sponsored by Tubi, is everyone’s favorite dance movie, Dirty Dancing, starring a hunky Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and her beautiful original nose. I will be ignoring it until the end, which is the best ending of a film in the history of films.
positive · AI labelView post →‘TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’, ‘BEVERLY HILLS COP’, ‘DIRTY DANCING’, ‘MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’, SPY KIDS’, ‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ and more have been added to the National Film Registry. The films selected each year are noted for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time once again to watch DIRTY DANCING, a film about an extremely poorly run lake resort.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching Dirty Dancing because I’m in the Catskills and I forgot how strongly this movie makes the case that men and women *can* be friends
positive · AI labelView post →business idea: Dirty Dancing remake but the resort is a squat and the patrick swayze character is the best at crowdkilling and ok i hear it this is a movie for rax specifically
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Dirty Dancing for the first time. So is this a Horse Girl Movie but Patrick Swayze is the horse?
neutral · AI labelView post →[me, a fan of Dirty Dancing, watching somebody literally position a baby in a corner] Ok Salisbury, this is it. This is what you've been waiting for. Time to shine. [also me, incapable of actually remembering film quotes] You shouldn't put a baby there!
neutral · AI labelView post →Which prime minister do you think has seen the movie Dirty Dancing the most times? It’s gotta be Carney, right?
neutral · AI labelView post →Name another song that mentions the word "Life." 🎶 Composed by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, and Donald Markow in 1987 for the movie, Dirty Dancing, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 28, 1987.
neutral · AI labelView post →DIRTY DANCING is, in my opinion, pretty good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
positive · AI labelView post →Dirty Dancing would be a better movie if they had a mid-credits scene where Baby's dad is checking out of the resort and they hand him a bill for his daughter's 100 hours of private mambo lessons.
neutral · AI labelView post →Twilight cuts loose on the dance floor with her partner. This is a Patreon reward from 2021. the scene was inspired by the movie Dirty Dancing. www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Dirty Dancing (1987) By Jose A. Buzon
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter’s Dirty Dancing starring Adrienne Barbeau and Kurt Russell
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone sells Dirty Dancing wrong. It’s not a romance movie, it’s a movie about abortion and it fuckin rules. Took me forever to see it cuz no one told me that.
positive · AI labelView post →#ClocktoberMusic ⏰ #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 12: "[I've Had] The Time Of My Life" (from the "Dirty Dancing" movie soundtrack) · Bill Medley · Jennifer Warnes m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQL...
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Long-Forgotten '80s Cult Classic That's Finally Available on Netflix" This headline refers to DIRTY DANCING. Is Dirty Dancing a "long-forgotten" movie? It's possible, I suppose. I guess.
neutral · AI labelView post →So you know how Dirty Dancing came out in 1987 and was set in 1963? The equivalent today would be a film set in 2002.
neutral · AI labelView post →I never watched Dirty Dancing, but I blame Shania Twain for turning me hetero as a child. 
neutral · AI labelView post →America’s favorite abortion film: Dirty Dancing.
neutral · AI labelView post →A cool thing Dirty Dancing did was have the worst character in the movie reading Ayn Rand. It turned me off her books for all my formative years.
positive · AI labelView post →Born 18 August 1952, actor Patrick Swayze. His breakthrough came when he played dance instructor Johnny Castle in the romantic drama film Dirty Dancing (1987), receiving a Golden Globe nomination. The film was a huge box-office success. He died, aged just 57, in 2009. #PatrickSwayze
neutral · AI labelView post →Mods are out having fun. Confession: We’re watching the movie Dirty Dancing for the first time and it’s set in the 1960s but a lot of the soundtrack is 80s music???
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep tonights movie. Going straight to the 80s with Dirty Dancing. Pure classic of the time period #80s #dirtydancing #filmsky #genx
positive · AI labelView post →Literally, Dirty Dancing is an abortion fund movie. And also class warfare.
positive · AI labelView post →Dirty Dancing is the very pinnacle of you can have great messages in a film and it’s still wildly entertaining. The idea that those things don’t go together is nonsense.
positive · AI labelView post →Will Lionsgate recover from their rough 2024?. > Imaginary. Borderlands. The Crow. Megalopolis. 2024 has been a colossally bad year for Lionsgate Films. Whether it’s critical ratings or box office take, there’s not a lot to be optimistic about if you’re a fan or shareholder. This is too bad as Lionsgate has always been the studio I’ve always rooted for. As distributors of the Saw, John Wick, and Rambo they’ve always had an edge to them, giving smaller films a chance to reach larger audiences.…
neutral · AI labelView post →#BskyProm2026 would not be complete without this classic by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. From the movie Dirty Dancing, I Had the Time of My Life. Nobody puts Baby in a corner! youtu.be/WpmILPAcRQo?...
neutral · AI labelView post →No horror movie tonight. Tonight, in honor of my favorite actor of all times birthday, Patrick Swayze...I will be watching Dirty Dancing, 1987
positive · AI labelView post →We watched DIRTY DANCING tonight and when it started my niece said, “This movie is so old it has credits at the beginning.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Hollywood refuses to make my crossover movie Dirty Dancing with Wolves
neutral · AI labelView post →Dirty Dancing our way to the last backyard movie night of the summer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is there anyone hotter in a film than Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing? Like who is a modern day Swayze? No one has charisma anymore!
neutral · AI labelView post →I, too, have never seen Dirty Dancing. A girlfriend, in a nightclub, ran & launched herself at me, expecting me to do something from the film, knocking me flat.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you've seen the movie "Dirty Dancing" you know this song.
neutral · AI labelView post →My First Kiss #MemoryMusic #MusicChallenge During the "Hungry Eyes" scene in "Dirty Dancing" at my hometown movie theater. Eric Carmen "Hungry Eyes" open.spotify.com/track/7eafuv...
neutral · AI labelView post →Patrick was the most versatile Actor of his Generation Just a few to show his range Red Dawn Dirty Dancing Ghost Point Break Road House Too Wung Foo thanks for everything Julie Newmar He Truly was an Amazing Actor
neutral · AI labelView post →We are seeing the musical of Dirty Dancing tonight and I said I had never seen the movie but that I knew it was about a town where people aren’t allowed to dance. That is apparently Footloose 😂 Sometimes my extremely sheltered religious upbringing really shows 🙈
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw Dirty Dancing for the first time, and: pretty good, not at all the movie I thought it was for 40 years
positive · AI labelView post →Sorry, can’t. I’m listening to the More Dirty Dancing movie soundtrack.
neutral · AI labelView post →Christmas at Mountain Lake where the movie “Dirty Dancing” was filmed. Classic movie site, but wish there was snow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just got the movie Roadhouse confused with Dirty Dancing
neutral · AI labelView post →Today would have been my mother's 72nd birthday. My husband and I are going to Candyland (est. 1952) to get her favorites, then we're going to watch Dirty Dancing, my mother's favorite movie. I probably watched it over 100 times with her growing up. Happy birthday, Mom. I miss you.
positive · AI labelView post →Ooh, DIRTY DANCING just started on Pluto TV (right after CADDYSHACK, lol) and it is also a perfect Labor Day Weekend movie too: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Open to free & paid subscribers - shares appreciated! 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →“Point Break is a movie from the early 90s with Keanu Reeves and the guy from Dirty Dancing” is a phrase I was able to say without looking anything up, please clap. @cinquinho.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I have been so freaking busy this morning & haven’t had a chance yet to share the second-to-last entry in my Summer of (Movie) Love series that celebrates DIRTY DANCING & those summers where everything changes so here it is: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Cheers!
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching “Dirty Dancing” (1987). Sometimes you’re just in the mood for a nostalgic, sappy movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt0092...
positive · AI labelView post →i just saw Dirty Dancing for the first time and it is an instant top 5 for me, absolutely delightful film
positive · AI labelView post →What is a very popular movie that you have never seen? Me: Dirty Dancing (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →My mother's favorite movie of all time is Dirty Dancing. This lead to some explanations about what it was like in the 1960s when she introduced it to us.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge -Patrick Swayze #SeptemberMovieChallenge -birth control Dirty Dancing (1987) I still haven’t seen this even though it came out when I was a kid and Swayze is my spouse’s celebrity crush. I know it’s has an unwanted pregnancy theme. @omacolt.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →August 21, 1987: "Dirty Dancing" film directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey opens in the USA.
neutral · AI labelView post →Roadhouse is a far superior film to Dirty Dancing. I will not be taking questions at this time.
negative · AI labelView post →It's the eyes. He doesn't look like himself anymore. This was a mistake, if he did it to get more work. He looks like a generic background character. Reminds me of Jennifer Grey, how she blew her entire career by getting a nose job *after* being cast as the love interest for Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing.
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