Thank God It's Friday (1978)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Robert Klane

Writer:

Armyan Bernstein (writer)

Release Date:

20 July 1978 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Tagline:

Let's blow this joint into another space zone

Plot:

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodore's are scheduled to play if Floyd...

Plot Keywords:

Disco | Dance Contest | Stamp | Telephone Booth | Singer

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win

Cast

Valerie Landsburg	...	Frannie
Terri Nunn	...	Jeannie
Chick Vennera	...	Marv Gomez
Donna Summer	...	Nicole Sims
Ray Vitte	...	Bobby Speed
Mark Lonow	...	Dave
Andrea Howard	...	Sue
Jeff Goldblum	...	Tony Di Marco
Robin Menken	...	Maddy
Debra Winger	...	Jennifer
John Friedrich	...	Ken
Paul Jabara	...	Carl
Mews Small	...	Jackie (as Marya Small)
Chuck Sacci	...	Gus Micola
Hilary Beane	...	Shirley

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL | West Germany:12 | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:Btl | USA:PG

Company:

Casablanca Filmworks

Trivia:

This was the movie playing in the drive-in scene in the 1983 Stephen King thriller "Christine".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Halfway through the movie, Frannie and Jeannie are sitting on a car. Just as they start walking away, the car starts to drive off with Jeannie's purse on it (with all their money). As Jeannie and Frannie start chasing after it you can see Jeannie look down to find her mark to stop in the right spot for the camera shot.

Quotes:

Gus: Hey, whaddya hangin' around here for? You think some fairy godmother's gonna show up at midnight and turn me into a lawyer?
Shirley: I'm not hanging around you, I just haven't left yet.
Gus: Hmmm.
Shirley: What's wrong with you anyway?
Gus: Hey, don't make fun of my height.
Shirley: I'm not talking about your height. I don't care that you're a shrimp. I do care that you're an insensitive shrimp.
Gus: Well let me tell you something, lady. I bust my hump all week working. Come Friday night ain't got time to be Mr. Nice Guy.
Shirley: Oh, well let me tell you something. I feel sorry for you because you're an unhappy person.
Gus: What the hell I got to be happy about? I'm out with an old maid.
[Shirley belts Gus across the jaw, knocking him to the floor]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in When Disco Ruled the World (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

You Can Always Tell a Lady by the Company She Keeps

Today's fad is tomorrow's joke

This is an easy movie to laugh at. It is very into it's time and it's music, fashion, the whole nine yards. This movie came out in 1978 when disco was at it's most popular. DJs who a few years later would get on the "Disco Sucks" bandwagon were still wearing their polyester suits and wearing gold chains, playing the soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever" over and over again. It's easy to forget how big disco was and how serious it was for a brief span of time. This movie attempts to portray in a humourous way, a night at a very "cool" disco, presided over by a very "cool" owner and DJ, who played " cool" music all night long. It shows how a night at the disco affects several different kinds of people, from a couple whose marriage is on the skids to two underage girls trying to sneak in to enter a dance contest. The music is pounding, the drug use blatant, the clothes were wild, yes this was 1978. This was all a clever package, of course, to market the movie's fantastic soundtrack. Like the SNF soundtrack, this movie sold their double LP soundtrack like hotcakes. Live performances by Donna Summer and The Commodores add to this movies appeal. Recommended as a double feature with "Detroit Rock City" to show that there was two very divergent musical tastes amoung white kids in 1978.