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Director:
Writers:
Aaron Latham (articles)
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Release Date:
7 June 1985 (USA) more
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John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis work up a sweat together! more
Plot:
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight. | add synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
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(8 articles)
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Cast

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Ramey Ellis ... City News Receptionist

Alma Beltran ... Grieving Woman
Perla Walter ... Grieving Woman
Gina Morelli ... Grieving Woman

John Travolta ... Adam
John Napierala ... City News Editor
Stefan Gierasch ... Charlie
Jann Wenner ... Mark Roth

Anne De Salvo ... Frankie
Philippe Delgrange ... Maitre d' in New York
Tom Schiller ... Carly Simon's Friend
Paul Kent ... Judge
Murphy Dunne ... Peckerman
Kenneth Welsh ... Joe McKenzie

Michael Laskin ... Government Prosecutor
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Additional Details

Runtime:
115 min | Canada:128 min (Ontario)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Star Jamie Lee Curtis worked out constantly during filming and only ate one meal a day. more
Quotes:
Linda: I guess I'll go see if I can scare up a gang-bang. more
Soundtrack:
Nightmares Come True more

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1985....Like a Jackie Collins novel....a bad year, 8 November 2006
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Author: MarieGabrielle from United States

"The Hitcher" (young C. Thomas Howell) and "Risky Business" came out, Wes Craven was doing his "Nightmare on Elm Street" series...so what did we young people have for drama? This.

If you need a laugh now, you may want to tune in. While Jamie Lee Curtis tries to elevate this, it is simply not elevate-able.

Laraine Newman and Marilu Henner are gym groupies with no self-esteem, (Marilu gets the Chippendale man though, so it's all good). John Travolta as a semi-literate writer at "Rolling Stone". (We know he is good, because in the end he goes to jail for protecting a source). There are some scenes with Jann Wenner and Lauren Hutton, apparently the then in-crowd, at a party.

The really sad part about this is that there really were people like this; the gym was a sense of self-esteem;(along with anorexia). Aerobics class became the next singles hang-out as the song "Masquerade" blares out, while everyone obsesses over plastic surgery and the perfect body (The Laraine Newman character is particularly pathetic).

We see the superficiality. Has anything changed? Indeed, they could remake this with Jessica Simpson as the lead. Someone get on the phone to CAA!.

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