Why Dirty Dancing would never be made today | Noo Saro-Wiwa
30 years ago the film addressed abortion, religion and class in a way that 21st-century Hollywood would never dare
It’s 30 years since was first released. It’s one of my all-time favourite movies, but the older I get the more amazed I am that a film like this ever got green-lit. Middle-class Jewish teenager gets her parents’ blessing after hooking up with a Catholic, working-class, possible statutory rapist at a summer resort? Only in the 1980s could you get away with a storyline like that. And only in the 80s do the lovebirds go on to shatter class divisions
