To escape Neil and some boring games, Baby wanders toward the staff quarters, which are off-limits to guests. Max insists they stop showing off they're supposed to sell dance lessons, to the guests, not dance together. When the band plays Johnny's mambo, Johnny and Penny perform a lively, sensual dance. To impress Baby, Neil tells her he's going to Mississippi with a couple of the busboys on a Freedom Ride. While Baby reluctantly dances with Neil, Tito Suarez (Charles Honi Coles) tap dances and leads the resort's band in a foxtrot. Max introduces the girls to his grandson, Neil (Lonny Price), who is studying hotel management at Cornell and is Entertainment Director at the resort. She plans to enlist in the Peace Corps, while Lisa aspires to be an interior decorator. During dinner we learn that Baby is enrolled in Mount Holyoke College to study economics of developing countries. When the entertainment staff enters, including Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), Max lays out their rules: "Teach the daughters dances they pay to learn, but otherwise no funny business: no conversations, and keep your hands off". That evening, Baby heads up to the main house, where she overhears Max giving orders to the waiters to show all the young women, "even the dogs", a good time. Baby and her older sister, Lisa (Jane Bruckner), take a merengue lesson led by former Rockette Penny Johnson (Cynthia Rhodes). Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), is employed as personal physician of resort owner Max Kellerman (Jack Weston). It's the summer of 1963, and Baby and her affluent Jewish family are headed for Kellerman's Mountain House, a Catskills resort where her father, Dr. Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is in the back seat of the family car. As the film begins, Big Girls Don't Cry continues. Toward the end of the credits, Cousin Brucie, a radio DJ, is heard announcing the next song, the Four Seasons' Big Girls Don't Cry. Amanda W, amended by Linda C.ĭuring the opening credits, the Ronettes sing Be My Baby with images of couples dancing in the background. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny, ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness, and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse, that he funded the illegal abortion. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains.
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