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‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
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The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classic There is probably a Swedish word for the emotional state engendered in me by Dirty Dancing. A kind of turbo-nostalgia which blends solace, joy and a sense of continuity with…
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‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
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