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.| Status: | Released (1984-02-17) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 6 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $80,035,402 |
| Screen: | Dean Pitchford |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, IndieProd Company Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 4724: Kevin Bacon - Ren McCormack
- 26456: Lori Singer - Ariel Moore
- 12074: John Lithgow - Reverend Shaw Moore
- 1902: Dianne Wiest - Vi Moore
- 2969: Chris Penn - Willard Hewitt
- 520: Sarah Jessica Parker - Rusty
- 3009: Jim Youngs - Chuck Cranston
Crews
- 35498: Craig Zadan - Producer - Production
- 1728: Ric Waite - Director of Photography - Camera
- 35496: Dean Pitchford - Screenplay - Writing
- 18378: Herbert Ross - Director - Directing
- 35499: Ron Hobbs - Production Design - Art
- 35500: Mary Swanson - Set Decoration - Art
- 10766: Paul Hirsch - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Wuchak
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"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. Pr ....
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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 Ki ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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"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 un ....
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