Footloose (1984)
Genre: Music / Romance
Duration: 107 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer and John Lithgow
IMDb score:
6,6 (101.362)
Releasedate: 17 February 1984
Footloose plot
"The music is on his side."
Ren MacCormack has just moved from Chicago to the small town of Bomont. He is a real city boy and likes to dance to rock music, two deadly sins in lovely Bomont. The teachers use him as a bad example and his classmates bully him. Reverend Moore has banned dance music, however, he should have known what his daughter Ariel and Ren are doing together...
Actors and actresses
Ren McCormack
Ariel Moore
Reverend Shaw Moore
Vi Moore
Willard Hewitt
Rusty
Chuck Cranston
Woody
Wendy Jo
Ethel McCormack
Reviews & comments
Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
You don't get more 80's than this.
Kevin Bacon is angry. So he drives to an abandoned department store, plays a cassette tape in his beetle and dances like crazy to Never by Moving Pictures. Meanwhile, he sees some flashbacks of things that have happened to him before. It's cheesy, it's cheesy, but it's also secretly fun. Footloose is primarily a feel-good movie. Drama like domestic violence and morals like 'learning to let go' certainly crop up here and there, but are interspersed with crazy dance scenes to cheerful 80s music by people with the most colorful and idiotic clothes. It's the time of shoulder pads, piled up jeans and brightly colored leg warmers. And the time when Kevin Bacon teaches Mr. Chris Penn to dance to Deniece Williams' Let's Hear It For the Boy, probably the cutest scene in the entire movie.
Not everything about Footloose is strong, by the way. The film is a bit difficult to get into, the film mainly hops from scene to scene; sometimes with a lot of hysterical gibberish from a group of ladies. Only when scenes last a little longer does it get a little better and the film gets a little more focus. John Lithgow is also an excellent actor, proving in this film that he can go over the top as well as play quite subtle and small. I was also happy that his character wasn't too one-dimensional. Footloos is a great film in that respect, actually just worth 3 stars. But the dance scenes with those great 80s hits and the wrong clothes made me very happy again. My feet moved happily with each scene. So that cheerfulness is worth an extra half a star.
3.5 stars.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10012 messages
- 4678 votes
Yes, nice movie, now 35 years old. We are not getting any younger 
It is not even a dance film pur sang, but more an easily digestible feel-good film. The young people in the farming village of Beaumont rebel against the moral authority and want to organize a dance evening. I can still enjoy that simple uncomplicated enjoyment from these 80s films. It is nevertheless made with modesty and with good sentiment. Just have fun! A ban on dancing may perhaps be seen as exaggerated, in the past the church had much more control over its inhabitants, especially in rural areas and the priest the shepherd who had to save his sheep from destruction.The soundtrack consists of immortal classics.
Also brilliant dialogue that really knocked me out: 
Ren: You like Men At Work?
Willard: What men?
Ren: Men at work.
Willard: Well where do they work?
Ren: No, they're a music group.
Willard: Well what do they call themselves?
Ren: Oh no! What about the Police?
Willard: What about 'em?
Ren: You ever heard them?
Willard: No, but I've seen them.
Ren: Where, in concert?
Willard: No, behind you.
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barcam
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- 910 messages
- 896 votes
Pleasant feel good movie.
Nice rendition of Kevin Bacon but especially John Lithgow steals the show.
Paper thin story and very predictable with caricatural characters, but can be enjoyed just for the 80s atmosphere alone.
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