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List Price: $12.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1977 DVD Release : 08 October, 2002 |
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Saturday Night Fever description Saturday Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's release in 1977, disco ruled the dance floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub; Tony's brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" (Travolta's theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The Oscar®-nominated Travolta, plucked from the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter, for his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules. --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Masterpiece of Its Kind |
| Travolta was born a star, long before he displayed any acting ability. That talent is all over this early picture, a celebration of Brooklyn culture, the disco era, dance, and finally Travolta himself, who is a pleasure to watch. This was an innovative, creative, "independent" film, made at a time when films like "The Godfather" and "Rocky" scored on the charts. Like most musicals of Broadway, this picture celebrates the triumph of the self. Like "Pretty Woman," the lead character has big dreams, but refuses to settle for less. It's an uplifting picture, although the ending is rather sad. The use of profanity and crude sexuality makes the film slightly offensive, but it is a realistic depiction of this particular world of teenagers, who are, as we all know, rather coarse and offensive. Still, it is a masterpiece of its kind and is still a kick to watch. | |
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