Dirty Dancing

Let's start with the best movie ever made in the history of movies and you can try to argue with me about your favorite movie, but I doubt it will change my mind. When I first watched Dirty Dancing, I was expecting another movie like Footloose or Grease, which are good but not that good. Instead I found a movie with one of the shallowest yet substantial plots ever. It's a coming-of-age story so of course the main character is going to break of from her family and fall in love (saw that coming a mile away), but for some reason it appealed to me in my very core.

I also love this movie because it makes me forget for two hours that I'm forever alone

It's 1963 and a Jewish family is going to a Jewish summer camp and everything is dandy until the main character, Baby, develops a crush on the head dance dude, Johnny. His childhood friend needs an illegal abortion so Baby funds the trip, cause she's nice, but oh no! The only time she can see the doctor is on the night of a big dance routine with Johnny. Again, cause she's nice, Baby steps in to do the dance and as she is taught the mambo, they fall in love. The dance goes swell, the abortion gets botched, and Baby's dad, who's also a doctor, helps but bans Baby from hanging out with the dance help. Well she's in love so she stays with Johnny anyway. He's accused of thievery but Baby stands up for him and he gets fired for getting hands on with Baby. He comes back for the final show, says the world famous line, then they dance the pants off the resort, everything is forgiven and all is good.

This movie had two very important things that stood out to me: 1. a young Patrick Swayze, and 2. classic hits from the 60's AND powerful love ballads from the 80's, but they aren't sung by the characters, which is important for me because I don't like musicals. It was a foreseeable ending but so immensely satisfying that I watched it eight more times that week.