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1980s Movie Tournament: Second Leg |
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| Planes, Trains and Automobiles | Dirty Dancing | |
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After his business concluded in NYC, poor Neal Page (Steve Martin) wanted nothing more than to return home to Chicago in order to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Instead his trip home becomes a long drawn out nightmare. His original flight from New York's La Guardia airport ends up getting rerouted to Wichita. Once arriving in Wichita, he and his other passengers learn they are stranded. With no other options, Neal decides to share a room in a fleabag motel with Del Griffith (John Candy). Del, a shower-curtain-ring salesman and fellow stranded traveler, is a lovable oaf who is the polar opposite of Neal. Although Neal originally finds Del to be an idiot, they become friends thanks to their misadventures. Their trip home is riddled with crazy cabbies, broken trains, rental cars catching on fire, redneck truck drivers, oversexed bus passengers and a budding friendship.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles was John Hughes first attempt at a film not starring teenagers. John Hughes was able to create yet another amazing film to add to his repertoire. The pairing of John Candy and Steve Martin was magical. If only they could have starred in more movies together… Memorable dialogue: Del Griffith: You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm not changing. I like... I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get. |
In the summer of 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) and her family go on vacation at the Kellerman Resort in the Catskill Mountains. At the age of 17, her future has already been decided (attend Mount Holyoke and then enter the Peace Corps). Baby's world changes when she develops a crush on the resort's dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). As Baby becomes Johnny's star pupil, their tempers flare and a steamy romance begins. Aside from their budding relationship, Baby also decides to help Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), another resort employee, when she learns Penny needs to get an abortion. Penny's abortion leaves her in agony so Baby asks her doctor father (Jerry Orbach) to help her. Mr. Houseman, believing Johnny was the father, forbids Baby from seeing him again. Baby defies her father and continues to see him regardless of the consequences. When Johnny is accused of stealing from a guest, Baby admits that they were still seeing each other and that he couldn't be the culprit because he was with her. Johnny was fired for having a relationship with a guest but was still rather moved by Baby's declaration. Johnny returns to the resort to perform the final dance of the season with Baby.
When I was kid I remember my brother explaining to me the movie was called Dirty Dancing because they practiced dancing barefoot on a log. At the time, that seemed like a plausible enough explanation. At the tender age of 5, I clearly wasn't in the right demographic to fully grasp the film. This film sealed Patrick Swayze's fate as a heart throb and spawned one of the most infamous movie lines of all time (anyone else cringe every time Simeon on The Pickup Artist used this line at bars?) Memorable dialogue: Johnny: Nobody puts Baby in the corner. Johnny Castle: That took a lot of guts to go to him! You are not scared of anything. Baby: Me? I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw. I'm scared of what I did, of who I am. And most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life... the way I feel when I'm with you! |
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