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Footloose (1984) Rated PG. "Footloose" is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. It wants to tell the story of a conflict in a town, it wants to introduce some flashy teenage characters, and part of the time it wants to be a music video. It's possible that no movie with this many agendas can be ...
As he struggles to fit in, Ren faces an uphill battle to change things. With the help of his new friend, Willard Hewitt (Christopher Penn), and defiant teen Ariel Moore (Lori Singer), he might ...
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- Herbert Ross
- PG
- Kevin Bacon
alainenglish 24 June 2002. "Footloose" is a fun and very lighthearted motion picture that promises a good time and delivers. The film has a simple, if unlikely, plotline. Streetsmart but gentle teenager Ren MacCormack (Kevin Bacon) arrives from the big city with his mother in the backwater town of Bomont.
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The film received mixed reviews from the critics and was a box office success, grossing $80 million in North America, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 1984. The songs "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Feb 17, 1984 · Footloose: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest. A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Herbert Ross
- 1984-02-17
Mar 4, 2021 · Andrew’s Rate-O-Meter Score: 7/10 MPAA/CARA rating: PG Runtime: 1hr 47min I gave Footloose an 7/10 mostly because of the music by “Soundtrack King” Kenny Loggins; one of his songs provides the title of this film. Otherwise, the plot has a few holes, and is somewhat silly, but a good cast and fantastic performances by Bacon and Lithgow ...
70. Newsweek David Ansen. The bottom lineis that "Footloose" has a lively, sweet, infectious spirit, and for that one is willing to overlook some clunky scenes, fuzzy motivations, gratuitous brawls and the failure to evoke this town with any sociological coherence. It works because Bacon, always a fine actor, and Singer make a golden and ...
