Footloose (1984)

Directed by

Herbert Ross

Genre

drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film, coming-of-age film, dance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 2,220 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager moves from Chicago to a small town where dancing is banned. He tries to change the town's strict rules with the help of a few allies.

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What happens

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Dean Pitchford. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn a ban on dancing enforced by the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow). The film was released on February 17, 1984, by Paramount Pictures, and received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $80 million in North America, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 1984. The songs "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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