Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing

TV-PG

2017

2h 18m

Musical

Romance

Drama

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Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, which changes many things for everyone in the Houseman family.

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Critics Consensus

Clever casting can't save Dirty Dancing, a hollow remake that trips over its own good intentions.

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Anne Cohen

Refinery29

The craziest thing about this, let's face it, completely unnecessary and vastly inferior imposter of a film, is the ending.

Jun 27, 2017

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Jenna Scherer

Rolling Stone

Wayne Blair and Jessica Sharzer's remake attempts to be all things to all people, and ends up being nothing to anybody.

May 25, 2017

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Brian Lowry

CNN.com

ABC'S Dirty Dancing remake fits snugly in a box, adding just enough appealing wrinkles to its predecessor's familiar moves to provide, if not the time of your life, for what it is a pretty enjoyable few hours.

May 24, 2017

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Mark A. Perigard

Boston Herald

Dirty Dancing is 30 years old. To celebrate, ABC has decided to stomp all over your memories of the beloved film.

Rated: D

May 25, 2017

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A god awful and ill conceived version of the eighties classic.

May 25, 2017

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Laura Hurley

CinemaBlend

This new Dirty Dancing is an energetic way to get ready for summer in a way that will have you tapping your toes, and it brings all the swirling skirts and thrusting hips that we could have hoped for out of a TV special.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 24, 2017

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Matthew D

I definitely did not have the time of my life. The fact that they had to have backup dancers during the final number tells you something.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/15/25

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MICK B

Whoever made this movie needs to be kicked out of Hollywood permanently. Who the heck thought to cast Baby as a porky girl who couldn't dance, nor act. I actually watched it a 2nd time for belly laughs at how horrid this movie is. The unknown actor who portrayed Johnny made me cringe. My husband watched about 40 minutes, but left to watch TV in another room. He said it's the worst crap he watched in a long while.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/19/25

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Joel H

An awful Karaoke rendition of the 1987 classic.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/01/25

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Ruby s

i thought it was ok i had never seen the og movie but from what i saw with this movie it was pretty goood

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/25/24

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Trafalgar L

Lazy writing, a verbatim remake script with a twist ending and an unnecessary subplot involving Dr. and Marjorie Houseman plague this television film. If you desire to watch it please only focus on Katey Sagal's Vivian Pressman.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/24

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steve d

The dancing is uninspiring but most of the updates work really well.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Synopsis

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, which changes many things for everyone in the Houseman family.

Director: Wayne Blair
Producer: Adam Anders, Judy Cairo, Bill Hill, Stephen Meinen
Screenwriter: Jessica Sharzer
Production Co: Lionsgate Television
Rating: TV-PG (S|D|L)
Genre: Musical, Romance, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2017
Runtime: 2h 18m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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