80s films 'more than Patrick Swayze writhing around'
Dirty Dancing, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Top Gun, The Breakfast Club... Many popular films made in the 1980s are dismissed as cheesy - and lacking in artistic merit.
But Hadley Freeman credits such films for teaching her βmore about life than any library or teacher ever wouldβ.
Dirty Dancing is about much more than βPatrick Swayze writhing aroundβ, says the Guardian columnist and author of Life Moves Pretty Fast.
βItβs about feminism, the importance of having legality of abortion and itβs about female sexuality,β she says.
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