Footloose
The music is on his side.
Overview
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
- Budget
- $8,200,000
- Revenue
- $80,035,402
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, IndieProd Company Productions
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Cast
Kevin Bacon
Ren
Lori Singer
Ariel
John Lithgow
Rev. Shaw Moore
Dianne Wiest
Vi Moore
Chris Penn
Willard
Sarah Jessica Parker
Rusty
John Laughlin
Woody
Elizabeth Gorcey
Wendy Jo
Frances Lee McCain
Ethel McCormack
Jim Youngs
Chuck
Lynne Marta
Lulu
Arthur Rosenberg
Wes
Timothy Scott
Andy Beamis
Alan Haufrect
Roger Dunbar
Linda MacEwen
Eleanor Dunbar
Leo Geter
Rich
H.E.D. Redford
Widdoes
Gene Pack
Bernie
Oscar Rowland
Mr. Walsh
John Bishop
Elvis
Crew
- Director
- Herbert Ross
- Writers
- Dean Pitchford
- Producers
- Craig Zadan,Lewis J. Rachmil,Daniel Melnick
- Cinematography
- Ric Waite
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Wuchak
July 27, 2018
"A time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4 RELEASED IN 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” chronicles events in the small Western town of Bomont where dancing and loud music have been outlawed because of an accident that killed some kids years earlier. Preacher’s daughter Ariel (Lori Singer) rebels against the legalistic measures while taking liking to a new student from Chicago, Ren (Kevin Bacon), whom her father (John Lithgow) disapproves of because he perceives Re…
GenerationofSwine
January 14, 2023
It's still one of my favorites and I could hardly walk when it first came out. And now it's legend, so writing a real review is almost needless. Just about everyone has seen it. It's still regarded as a classic. So I suppose the best thing to say is that it's like the Karate Kid...only with dancing rather than martial arts. Single mother and son move into a new town. Son is an outsider that gets in trouble with the local bully. Son starts dating the local bully's girlfriend. Son and bul…
CinemaSerf
April 11, 2024
"Ren" (Kevin Bacon) moves from the big city to a small town run by the rather puritanical preacher "Moore" (John Lithgow) only to find that dancing, singing - indeed just about every form of entertainment has been banished. He claims that is to protect them and their children from ungodly corrupting influences. The new boy is treated with enough circumspection before "Ariel" (Lori Singer) takes a shine to him, but once it's known that the daughter of the town bible-basher is having a romance wit…