FILM CHOICE

Dirty Dancing (1987)

5*, 8pm

CAN it really be three decades since Patrick Swayze’s hip-swivelling hero first uttered the immortal line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”? Time flies but the charm and simmering sensuality of Dirty Dancing endures. Jennifer Grey plays the prim and proper Frances “Baby” Houseman, who goes to summer camp with her well-heeled parents (Jerry Orbach, Kelly Bishop) and promptly falls in love with her dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Swayze). Tensions between the couple boil over, and Baby becomes embroiled in the disastrous romantic dalliances of Johnny’s dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), who has fallen pregnant by womanising waiter Robbie (Max Cantor) and needs to raise cash for an abortion.