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| Year: 1977 |
| Director: John Badham |
| Cast: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow, Bruce Ornstein, Julie Bovasso, Martin Shakar, Sam Coppola, Nina Hansen, Lisa Peluso, Denny Dillon, Bert Michaels, Robert Costanzo |
| Genres: Musical, Drama |
| Runtime: 118 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Subtitles: OpenSubtitles.org |
| Soundtrack: available |
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a Brooklyn discotheque. While in the disco, Tony is the king, and the visits help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a dead-beat gang of friends.
The movie significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world, and made Travolta a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, became the best selling soundtrack ever.
The film also showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, and graceful choreography.
The story is based upon a 1976 New York magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night. In the late-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that the article had been fabricated. A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about. The characters who were to become Tony Manero and his friends sprang almost completely from his imagination. |
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| Date: 2007-01-27 16:48:44 |
User: raz |
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I think a lot of folks here are missing the point of "SNF." It's not just about the dancing or music, which is all great and entertaining, believe me. The Bee Gees wrote the soundtrack of the 1970s with that album! I love the energizing dance scenes and the quaint polyester clothes and Afro hairdos. But "SNF" is more than a musical - it's a real life gritty urban drama that I think it still relevant today. So what if it's depressing or harsh- that's the way life is in a blue collar urban setting. Tony's escape through dancing in contrast to his bleak life and dysfunctional family and friends is the heart and soul of the movie. Unlike most other musicals, it actually has a strong and relatable story line. The acting was great too, and all of the characters stand out beyond just one-dimensional cardboard cutouts. I think it's one of the best movies of the 1970s, if not all time! |
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