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Details: 1987, USA, Cert 15, 97 mins
Direction: Emile Ardolino
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Summary: A spoiled teenager learns something about life, love and dancing during a family vacation in the early 1960s.
With: Cynthia Rhodes, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach and Patrick Swayze
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Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw: The purest spirit of the 1980s is distilled in this amiable film.
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