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Dirty Dancing (1987) Theatrical Trailer [4K] [FTD-1169]

Dirty Dancing(1987)
Released
1987 · FILM

Dirty Dancing

Teenager Frances “Baby” Houseman craves freedom and love at a swanky 1963 Catskills resort, but must outwit her privileged family’s expectations and the manipulative owner to win the heart of charismatic dance instructor Johnny Castle.

“First dance. First love. The time of your life.”

Directed by
Emile Ardolino
Written by
Eleanor Bergstein
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
100 min
DramaMusicRomance

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter C FrankShot by Jeffrey JurScored by John MorrisDesigned by David Chapman

Box Office

1987 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 36× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$214.6M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$214.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $63.4M — 30% of worldwide · International: $151.1M (70%)

Opening weekend: $3.9M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $6.4M — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 975 theaters

Re-release box office

2019650 theaters
$979K($1.3M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Dirty Dancing - Balli proibitiit

Companies

ProductionGreat American Films Limited Partnership, Vestron Pictures

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