Footloose

Director: Herbert Ross Herbert Ross

Overview

In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers, who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/24/2017
UPC:	0032429256874
Original Release:	1984
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Language:	English

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Bacon	Actor
Lori Singer	Actor
John Lithgow	Actor
Dianne Wiest	Actor
Sarah Jessica Parker	Rusty
John Laughlin	Woody
Elizabeth Gorcey	Wendy Jo
Frances Lee McCain	Ethel McCormick
Jim Youngs	Chuck
Douglas Dirkson	Burlington Cranston
Lynne Marta	Lulu
Arthur Rosenberg	Wes
Robert Allen	Actor
Jane Feinberg	Actor
Tim Scott	Andy Beamis,Actor,Andy Beamis
Alan Haufrect	Roger Dunbar
Mike Fenton	Actor
Donna Garrett	Actor
Linda MacEwen	Eleanor Dunbar
Kim Jensen	Edna
Norman Howell	Actor
Clair Leucart	Actor
Michael Telmont	Travis
Daniel Moore	Actor
Leo Geter	Rich
Ken Kemp	Jeff
Lane Parrish	Actor
Russ McGinn	Herb
Sam Dalton	Mr. Gurntz
H.E.D. Redford	Widdoes
Margery Simkin	Actor
Jay Bernard	Harvey
Peter Tramm	Stunt Dancer
David Valenza	Team Member
Meghan Broadhead	Sarah,Amy,Mayor Dooley
Gene Pack	Bernie
Marcia Yvette Reider	Virginia
John Perryman	Fat Cowboy
Mary Ethel Gregory	Mrs. Allyson
Oscar Rowland	Mr. Walsh
John Bishop	Elvis
Carmen Trevino	Girl
Melissa Renee Graehl	Girl
Monica Silva	Girl
Terri Gay Ulmer	Girl
Chris Penn	Willard
Marcia Dangerfield	Actor
Brian Wimmer	Uncredited
Kenny Loggins	Composer
Jim Steinman	Composer
Tom Snow	Composer
Dean Pitchford	Composer

Technical Credits

Dean Pitchford

Herbert Ross	Director
Dean Pitchford	Screenwriter
Craig Zadan	Producer
Lewis J. Rachmil	Producer
Daniel Melnick	Executive Producer
Robert Allen	Stunts
Wayne Brown	Stunts
J. Suzanne Fish	Stunts
Donna Garrett	Stunts
Paul Godwin	Stunts
Norman Howell	Stunts
Clair E. Leucart	Stunts
Daniel K. Moore	Stunts
Lane Parrish	Stunts
Carol L. Rees	Stunts
John-Clay Scott	Stunts
Wayne Beauchamp	Special Effects
Robert Bradshaw	Sound Effects
David E. Campbell	Sound Effects
Gordon Ecker Jr.	Sound Effects
Stan Gilbert	Sound Effects
David W. Gray	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

In addition to boasting one of the most popular movie soundtracks of all time, Footloose made a star of Kevin Bacon, the rebel with a cause at the center of this infectious celebration of dance that became a cultural phenomenon. Footloose is also one of the earliest movies to be clearly inspired by MTV, with its episodic narrative structure and songs staged as miniature emotional operas. When Bacon's bad boy pours out his angst through dance and aggressive gymnastics in a closed factory, swigging from a beer while blowing out plumes of smoke, all to the tune of "Holding out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, his mythic posturing is made in music video heaven. But there's a lot more than teenage disobedience in Footloose. It's also a sensitive portrait of Midwestern values, which don't clash nearly so much as Bacon's dance proponents or John Lithgow's worried churchgoers think they do. Lithgow's performance is especially complicated and heartfelt; the reluctant villain because he stands between the teens and their desire to cut loose, he really only wants to save them from themselves, having personally experienced tragedy caused by recklessness. Dianne Wiest balances her husband's conscience with her daughter's desire to embrace youth, making for another stand-out performance. Genuinely rousing, if perhaps willfully naïve and formulaic, Footloose is most winning during its dance sequences, the specialty of director/choreographer Herbert Ross. The movie held such lingering appeal in the popular consciousness that it inspired a successful Broadway musical -- almost 15 years after its theatrical release.