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Actor: Jack Weston

Jack Weston appears in two films reviewed here: Dirty Dancing (1987) and Ishtar (1987). Dirty Dancing (1987) rates highest at 8 out of 10, Ishtar (1987) lowest at 6.

Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman stand in the Sahara Desert wearing mismatched outfits and confused expressions.

Ishtar (1987) Review

Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-five million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…

A young couple dancing together at a resort, the man in dark clothes and the woman in a dress, circa 1960s setting.

Dirty Dancing (1987) Review

Dirty Dancing (1987) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about class and an illegal abortion, marketed as a summer romance. Made for five million dollars by people nobody expected anything from, and still running forty…