Footloose (1984)

A classic movie everyone must own

This was a great nostalgic flick for me.

Footloose has been a all time favorite movie for years and for coming generations

Classic Kevin bacon !!

This Paramount musical drama that was released on Friday February 17, 1984 is about an upbeat Chicago teen Ren McCormack(Kevin Bacon)who moves to a small rural town called Bomont, Utah to live with his aunt & uncle and discovers that dancing & rock music have been restricted by Bomont's city council and falls in love with the rebellious popular girl Ariel Moore(Lori Singer)who has a sleazy boyfriend Chuck Cranston(James Youngs)and an overprotective religious father Rev. Shaw Moore(John Lithgow)whom is also a big authority figure in Bomont, but then at the conclusion, Rev. Moore has a change of heart just before everybody gets down at the high school Senior prom and everybody lives happily ever after. This is also the movie that launched Kevin Bacon's acting career too, but Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe were considered to play the role of Ren McCormack since Cruise's famous underwear dance scene in RISKY BUSINESS in the Summer of 1983, but was unavailable for the part since he was already doing ALL THE RIGHT MOVES. Rob Lowe had auditioned for the part of Ren McCormack 3 times and had the dancing ability & "neutral teen" look that the director wanted, but Lowe was declined for the role, due to injuries. Additionally; Kevin Bacon had also been offered the role of Arnold Cunningham in John Carpenter's CHRISTINE in 1983 at the same time he was asked to audition for the Ren McCormack character on FOOTLOOSE, but Bacon chose to take the gamble on a screen test for FOOTLOOSE and the director(Herb Ross)had convinced the producers & directors to hire Bacon after watching Kevin Bacon in his previous flick DINER back in the Summer of 1982. In addition to some interesting facts on the making of this musical drama; Madonna, Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Heather Locklear, Liz Montgovern, Melanie Griifith, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rosanna Arquette, Meg Tilly, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bridget Fonda, Lori Loughlin, Diane Lane, Phoebe Cates, Tatum O'Neal, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss were all considered for the role of the reckless, but independent Ariel Moore. *Madonna had auditioned for the Ariel Moore character, but was rejected. *Daryl Hannah had declined the offer to play Ariel in order to portray the cheif character Madison in the comedy/drama flick SPLASH with Tom Hanks in the Summer of 1984 *Liz Montgovern turned down the role of Ariel to play Deborah Gelly in ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA FOOTLOOSE was also a stepping stone for Chris Penn(Willard Hewitt)and Sarah Jessica Parker(Rusty)since Penn and Parker weren't even famous when they co-starred in this movie. This movie also had a lot of cool hit songs like *FOOTLOOSE by Kenny Loggins *ALMOST PARADISE by Mike Reno & Ann Wilson *DANCING IN THE SHEETS by Shalamar *I'M FREE by Kenny Loggins *HURTS SO GOOD by John Couger Mellencamp *WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU by Foreigner Overall, FOOTLOOSE grossed $80,035, 403 at the box office when it was released back in the Winter of 1984 on Presidents Day weekend.

Such a good movie, easy fast purchase and good quality!!

Great Entertainment. Just so much fun to watch again and again. Makes you want to dance.

Forget the 2011 Footloose reboot, this 1983 original is the only choice for me. Kevin Bacon delivers one of his finest performance as Ren McCormick- the teenage rebel with a cause who is transplanted in a small town, who's repressive somewhat tyrannical Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow) has convinced everyone in town to discard and destroy books, movies, and dancing because they are all a sign of immoral behavior. McCormick runs afoul of the older more conservative generation who believe much like the reverend that certain books and movies confuse the soul and lead to immoral behavior. Going stir crazy in such a small town were he's labeled as a dangerous outsider, Ren decides to fight against the conservative order to get a Senior Prom for the students of Beaumont High School. He finds an unlikely collection of allies including Ariel (Lori Singer), the reverends rebellious and free minded daughter and Willard (Chris Penn), a tough guy prone to getting into fights who really can't dance at all. The cast is topped off by a wonderful, if understated performance by Diane Wiest as Rev. Moore's wife Vie. Footloose has always stood out for me because it had the depth that most movies geared towards teenagers today don't have. In Ren McCormick, there's a youthful adolescent still smarting over the perceived abandonment by his father, which causes him to be troublemaker to the small town residents of Beaumont, leading him to become this unlikely rebel with a cause character. Ariel Moore acts out because ever since her older brother died in a car crash while playing highway tag, she has been acting out trying to forget her brother on one level, while seeking to connect with her father who became more conservative after his son died. The greatest plot-line is Lithgow as Shaw Moore, who on one hand has appointed himself the spiritual light of the community, but delivers a sympathetic portrayal on the grounds that he was doing much of this because he was aroused by the tragic death of his son. Footloose speaks on issues of censorship, coming of age, and toleration. The extras here are interesting: You can watch the movie with commentary from Kevin Bacon or Producer/Writer Craig Zaden. There's also a series of short features that discuss the making of Footloose and the process of crafting the soundtrack that's on equal footing with the movie in my eyes. However, I noticed that much of the DVD content was aired as part of AMC's DVD on TV version of the movie in 2005 or 06. But since I'm probably one of the few people who have a tape of the AMC airing, true fans of Footloose will not notice anything.

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Exceptional movie which made Kevin Bacon a star and in an interview as an extra Bacon relates that this movie is one that people ask him about. Bacon comes to a small town with his mother, finds out that dancing has been banned. Prom is coming up. He befriends Lori Singer the daughter of minister John Lithgow who doesn't want dancing, great scene where some of his "flock" burn books and he stops them. Singer is very antagonistic to her father. Great scene where Bacon teaches Chris Penn to dance. Another great scene where Bacon races some of another gang on tractors. Sarah Jessica Parker has a small role as one of Singer's friends. Excellent background music, footloose, Kenny Loggins and Let's Hear it for the Boy. Bacon and his friends get permission from city council for dance and they fix up a warehouse. Great dance sequence where Bacon dances and uses gymnastics. Bacon confronts some teenage enemies and announces to everyone, Let's Dance, sequence is terrific. Great movie with Bacon demonstrating charisma that made him a star. Excellent extras with interviews from the cast. Highly recommended.

It's hard to imagine what effect this very 80s film has on young people now, but if you were the age of the characters back in 1984, it exerts an irresistiible pull, right from the very 80s pop on the soundtrack, the clothes, the hairstyles, and a certain energy without edge. The world seemed a more naive place, even though the banning of dancing in public seems unusual, as has occurred in Bomont ... Kevin Bacon (Ren) arrives from Chicago and tries to overturn the ban, gets romance with the very pretty preacher's daughter (Lori Singer), gets a best friend in Chris Penn, who he teaches the dance moves to, and locks horns with the preacher himself (John Lithgow). It's a measure of the skill of the film that the Rev. Shaw Moore is drawn with some subtlety, being very opposed to book censorship, and actively stopping the burning of titles at a local school. Behind his support for the dance ban is a personal tragedy that the film blends in very well to the story about the kids in their last year at school. The dance sequences are very enjoyable, Bacon and Singer look superb, and Chris Penn is also a complete winner - it's the film to bring out the winner in you ...

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