Friends of Ballard Park will screen Dirty Dancing during its 11th Annual MOVIES ON THE ROCKS series.  A short provided by the Rhode Island International Film Festival will show prior to the film.

In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey), a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a man whose background is vastly different from her own. When Johnny’s dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), finds herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn her steps and take her place; however, Baby’s father, Dr. Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings.  Rated PG13, 100 minutes. 1987.   

Movies begin at dusk (typically between 8:00 and 8:15 pm) in Ballard Park’s quarry meadow which will be open at 6:30 pm for blankets and picnicking. Seating is on the grass- bring a blanket or lawn chair.  In the event of rain movies will be shown on the following night. Like regular movie theaters, smoking is prohibited.

The series is co-sponsored by the Rhode Island House of Representatives, the Rhode Island State Senate and Ken & Tia Scigulinsky with support from BR Arnold Construction, Cox, Howard Johnson Inn, Kiki Finn, National Grid, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Rhode Island Office of Film & TV and St. Clare Newport.