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Writer:
Dean Pitchford (written by)
Release Date:
17 February 1984 (USA)
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Tagline:
One kid. One town. One chance. more
Plot:
A city boy comes to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 4 nominations
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(199 articles)
Kenny Ortega on exiting 'Footloose' remake: 'It was not planned'
(From EW.com - Hollywood Insider. 28 October 2009, 4:51 PM, PDT)
Ortega leaves his 'Footloose'
(From Monsters and Critics. 27 October 2009, 1:56 PM, PDT)
(From EW.com - Hollywood Insider. 28 October 2009, 4:51 PM, PDT)
Ortega leaves his 'Footloose'
(From Monsters and Critics. 27 October 2009, 1:56 PM, PDT)
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Guaranteed to lift you up
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kevin Bacon | ... | Ren McCormack |
 | Lori Singer | ... | Ariel Moore |
 | John Lithgow | ... | Reverend Shaw Moore |
 | Dianne Wiest | ... | Vi Moore |
 | Chris Penn | ... | Willard Hewitt (as Christopher Penn) |
 | Sarah Jessica Parker | ... | Rusty |
 | John Laughlin | ... | Woody |
| Elizabeth Gorcey | ... | Wendy Jo |
 | Frances Lee McCain | ... | Ethel McCormack |
| Jim Youngs | ... | Chuck Cranston |
| Douglas Dirkson | ... | Burlington Cranston |
| Lynne Marta | ... | Lulu Warnicker |
| Arthur Rosenberg | ... | Wes Warnicker |
| Timothy Scott | ... | Andy Beamis |
| Alan Haufrect | ... | Coach Roger Dunbar |
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107 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Netherlands:12 |
USA:PG (re-rating) (1983) |
USA:R (original rating) |
UK:12A (re-rating) (2007) |
UK:PG (cinema rating) (cut) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
West Germany:12
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Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe were both slated to play the lead. The casting directors were impressed with Cruise because of the famous underwear dance sequence in Risky Business (1983), but he was unavailable for the part because he was filming All the Right Moves (1983). Lowe auditioned three times and had dancing ability and the "neutral teen" look that the director wanted, but he pulled his knee, and the injury prevented him from taking the part. After watching Diner (1982), the director had to convince the producers to go with Kevin Bacon.
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Continuity: When Ariel is making the switch from the car to Chuck's pickup and the tractor-trailer is headed for them, they are about to converge at a railroad crossing, but when they do meet, there is no railroad crossing to be seen.
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Fat Cowboy:
Why don't you just flake off, huh.
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Referenced in "The Simpsons: How the Test Was Won (#20.11)" (2009)
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Footloose
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A film of enormous charm. It's about dancing but unlike many films about dancing it doesn't take itself seriously. It's loose-limbed and goofy and it lifts you up. It's set in a high school in a small mid-western town where dancing has been banned; (it reminds me of a joke I heard here in Ulster; 'Why do Free Presbyterians disapprove of making love standing up?' 'It might lead to dancing').
Kevin Bacon is the new kid in town who wants the ban lifted. Indeed, this boy seems to live to dance and he's immensely likable. He uses his killer smile to great effect. In this movie the dancing is integral to the plot and it evolves from it naturally and, for once, the director Herbert Ross takes things easy. As well as Bacon, the film has Lori Singer, (the obligatory love interest), and John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest as her parents. He's the bible-thumper who thinks that dancing is sinful and Wiest, with her wan, other-worldly smile, is the wife who doesn't as well as a very young Chris Penn as the over-weight farm boy Bacon teaches to dance in a wonderful sequence choreographed to Denise Williams' 'Let's hear it for the boy'