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Dirty Dancing was directed by Emilie Ardolino, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and written by Eleanor Bergstein. It starts Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, and Cynthia Rhodes. Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romance film. Kenny Ortega choreographed the movie's dancing scenes, which is about a third of the movie. Dirty dancing was originally a low-budget film ($5,000,000) by a new studio, and at the time it had no major stars. It became a hit at the box office, and as of 2007, the film has earned $300 million. Dirty Dancing was the first film to sell over a million copies on home video, and the Dirty Dancing soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles. The soundtrack includes "(I've had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won a Grammy Award for best duet. Dirty Dancing was released onAugust 21, 1987 and it's running time is 100 minutes. It has won an Acadamey Award for Best Original Song in 1987. At the Golden Globe Awards it won best original song, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture,Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture. At the Grammy awards Dirty Dancing won Best Pop Performance by a Duo, and was nominated for Best Song written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (Hollywood). Filming started on September 5, 1986. The cast only had two weeks of rehearsal, and only had 44 days for filming because it was close to the end of summer. Outside the temperature reached 105 degrees some days, and one day ten of the cast members passed out within twenty-five minutes of filming. Patrick Swayze also inquired an injury during the shooting of the movie. He fell off of the log while filming one of the scenes, and had to be hospitalized. Patrick got fluid drained off of his knee from the swelling. They ended the shooting on October 27, 1986; the film was on budget, as well as on time.