Film Night in the Park 2010: “Dirty Dancing” | Union Square

Submitted by the Event Organizer

In the 1960s, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. 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. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner (Johnny is not the father). 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. 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. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse – that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. 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. 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 an act of bravery, Baby states that Johnny is innocent, and alibis him by confessing that they were together all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending, Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman whose faith in him and whose courage changed his life. They do one final show-stopping dance together. Baby’s father learns that Johnny was not responsible for his partner’s pregnancy and learns to accept that although his beloved daughter is transitioning to womanhood, she will always love him.

Saturday July 10, 2010 – 8pm/Dusk
Union Square, Geary and Powell
FREE

Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a giant outdoor screen. Films-goers are encouraged to arrive early, spread out a blanket and picnic prior to the screening, but discouraged from bringing chairs.

Every summer Film Night in the Park puts on free outdoor movies in parks throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. 2010 screenings run from May 21st to September 25th with showtimes starting at dusk or 8pm, whichever is later.

2010 Film Night in the Park Outdoor Film Series
San Francisco
All shows begin at 8pm or Dusk, Schedule Subject to Change
http://www.sfntf.org/

Saturday, 6/19, Dolores Park, GREASE SING-A-LONG (1978)
Saturday, 7/10, Union Square, DIRTY DANCING (1988)
Saturday, 8/7, Dolores Park, FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)
Saturday, 8/28, Union Square, REAR WINDOW (1954)
Saturday, 9/11, Wash. Sq. Park, AMELIE (2001)
Saturday, 10/25, Dolores Park, THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)

2010 Film Night in the Park Outdoor Film Series
Bay Area
All shows begin at 8pm or Dusk, Schedule Subject to Change
http://www.filmnight.org/fnp2010.htm

May 2010
Friday May 21 San Anselmo SHERLOCK HOLMES (Robert Downey Jr.)
Saturday May 22 San Anselmo THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Friday May 28 San Anselmo TWILIGHT
Saturday May 29 San Anselmo ON THE EDGE (Dipsea 100 Anniversary)

June 2010
Friday June 11 Fairfax CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (EcoFest)
Friday June 18 Mill Valley STAR TREK
Saturday June 19 SF – Dolores Park GREASE SING-ALONG

July 2010
Friday July 9 San Anselmo LET IT BE
Saturday July 10 SF – Union Square DIRTY DANCING
Friday July 23 San Anselmo THE BLOB (1958)
Saturday July 24 San Anselmo HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Friday July 30 San Anselmo FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Saturday July 31 San Anselmo JAWS

August 2010
Friday August 6 San Geronimo NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
Saturday August 7 SF – Dolores Park FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF
Friday August 13 San Anselmo THE WORLDS FASTEST INDIAN
Saturday August 14 San Anselmo MAMMA MIA (SING-ALONG)
Friday August 20 San Anselmo Hitchcock’s NOTORIOUS
Saturday August 21 San Anselmo CORALINE
Saturday August 28 SF – Union Square REAR WINDOW

September 2010
Friday September 3 San Anselmo 16 CANDLES
Saturday September 4 San Anselmo UP
Sunday September 5 San Anselmo AVATAR
Friday September 10 Mill Valley ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Johnny Depp)
Saturday September 11 SF – Washington Sq. Park AMELIE
Saturday September 18 San Anselmo Special Screening – Film TBA
Friday September 24 San Geronimo WALL-E
Saturday September 25 SF – Dolores Park THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Film Night in the Park Locations:
SAN ANSELMO – Creek Park, the 400 block of Sir Francis Drake Blvd. 94960
FAIRFAX – Central Field, Broadway & Bank 94930
MILL VALLEY – Old Mill Park, 300 block of Throckmorton Ave. 94941
SAN GERONIMO – San Geronimo Valley Community Center , 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. 94963
SAN FRANCISCO
– Dolores Park,  Dolores and 19th
– Washington Square Park, Union & Columbus
– Union Square, Geary & Powell

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