Can't Stop the Music (1980)

User Rating:

3.4/10   

Director:

Nancy Walker

Writers:

Allan Carr (writer)
Bronte Woodard (writer)

Release Date:

20 June 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

The Musical Comedy Smash of the 80's!

Plot:

This is a Pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People

Plot Keywords:

Disco | Lawyer | Pop Group | Gay Cowboy | New York City New York

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Alex Briley	...	Alex the G.I.
David Hodo	...	David the Construction Worker
Glenn Hughes	...	Glenn the Leatherman
Randy Jones	...	Randy the Cowboy
Felipe Rose	...	Felipe the Indian
Ray Simpson	...	Ray the Police Officer
Valerie Perrine	...	Samantha Simpson
Bruce Jenner	...	Ron White
Steve Guttenberg	...	Jack Morell
Paul Sand	...	Steve Waits
Tammy Grimes	...	Sydney Channing
June Havoc	...	Helen Morell
Barbara Rush	...	Norma White
Altovise Davis	...	Alicia Edwards
Marilyn Sokol	...	Lulu Brecht

Also Known As:

Discoland: Where the Music Never Stops (USA) (working title)
You Can't Stop the Music! (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

124 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | USA:PG | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

EMI Films

Trivia:

The original title of the film was "Discoland: Where the Music Never Ends". The leading role was originally offered to Olivia Newton-John who turned it down to do Xanadu (1980). She was replaced by Valerie Perrine.

Goofs:

Continuity: In addition to Samantha's ice-cream "renewing" itself, it also changes flavor a number of times.

Quotes:

Jack Morell: Ya see, sir, my father is Jewish and my mom, she's Italian Catholic, so, got all the bases covered. Speaking of bases, when the other kids were following the baseball charts I was following the pop charts...
Steve Waits: I think I've heard that before. Why don't you save that for the liner notes on the album.
Jack Morell: Album? Are we getting an album deal?
Steve Waits: No! I did not say that.

Movie Connections:

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Soundtrack:

Magic Night

Why should anybody want to ?

I went to see this film almost the very first day it opened and along with "Fame" it is a recall mechanism for the start of an optimistic decade which like the acting in this film dive-bombed.The music and dancing however are of an almost Buzz Berkeley standard and they still bring most houses down.

It really does not matter that the script makes no sense or that Guttenberg wants to forget he ever made the film, or that Jenner remained not the right type of male legs and torso-the stars are the wonderful Village People.They kick start the action with the song YMCA and we owe it to them to see this incredible routine in the swimming pool.

They were all ready for the Eighties, shame that it didn't quite live up to everyone's hopes, but you will still find people who know a routine when they play old singles of YMCA. It's an electrifying track

and I'm not even gay.

People were plain rude about Allen Carr...he had made Grease... he had every right to make what he liked... come hell or Fire Island.