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In-joke: Director Robert Klane referenced by ads for fictitious Klane Scotch plastered on front and side of bus.
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This movie was made for a low budget of around (US) $2 million and reportedly tripled its production investment.
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The license plate number on sleazy nightclub owner Tony Di Marco's (Jeff Goldblum) car read: BIG ONE.
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The movie's original 1978 first-issue soundtrack album was a three record set which included two 33 1/3 rpm LP records and one 12 inch single.
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This film has garnered a reputation from a number of sources (including Leonard Maltin) as perhaps being the worst ever movie to win an Oscar (Academy Award).
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This film is the only ever full disco movie to win an Academy Award for music. The film won the Best Original Song Oscar in 1979 for the song "Last Dance" sung by Donna Summer. The song also won the Golden Globe Award that year for Best Song. In the USA in 1978, "Last Dance" went to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and topped the Hot Disco Action Chart (now the Hot Dance Club Play chart) for six weeks.
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The film is also known as TGIF, the well-known acronym expression for "Thank God It's Friday". This can be seen in these letters being highlighted in one of the movie's original theatrical posters.
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The name of the discotheque where the movie is set was The Zoo. The nightclub used for the Zoo was the no longer remaining Osko's which was situated at 333 South La Cienega Boulevard, south of 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California. The club was demolished during the 1980s and in its place was built a Loehmann's dress store. Osko's was the first name of its owner Osko Karaghossian who appeared in the film. Osko's Disco was famous for being like a labyrinth as well as having four dance floors.
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This movie represents the only ever on-screen appearance of the group The Commodores in a theatrically released film.
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The ice cavern-themed room 'The Cave' seen at the Zoo disco in this movie was an actual real room that existed at Osko's Los Angeles nightclub. The room can also be seen in another movie from the same year, Jennifer.
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The animated Columbia Pictures studio logo of a draped woman holding a flag can be seen boogieing and dancing during the very start of the movie.
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Cameo
Osko Karaghossian:
The owner of the then real-life Osko's Nightclub where this movie was shot as a bouncer at the Zoo Disco.
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Lionel Richie:
As himself, as a member of The Commodores. Ritchie can be seen during their performance at the disco in this film. This is the only ever on-screen appearance of the group in a theatrically released film.
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Donna Summer:
The Disco Queen as ambitious disco singer, Nicole Sims. This movie was the theatrical feature film debut for Summer and remains her only ever fictional character role in a movie.
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