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The film was initially met with mixed reviews. [50] The New York Times ' Vincent Canby called the film "terrific fun", describing it as a "contemporary fantasy about a 1950s teen-age musical—a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own".
Jun 16, 1978 · A musical about teens in love in the 1950s. It's California 1958 and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of ...
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Randal Kleiser
- 1978-06-16
- "Grease" is never said in the script. Only the word greased (with a "d") is sung in the song “Greased Lightnin’.”
- There is a reference to an ad from the future. As Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy is approaching Rydell High for the first time, she tells Didi Conn’s Frenchy, “I’m no stranger to heartbreak,” to which Frenchy replies, “Why?
- Rizzo has a connection to Elvis. The day they filmed the scene for “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” — a song in which Stockard Channing’s Rizzo sarcastically bellows “Elvis, Elvis, let me be; keep that pelvis far from me” — was August 16, 1977, the day Elvis Presley died.
- John Travolta's sister has a small role. John Travolta’s sister, Ellen, plays a diner waitress with a single line, “Oh, there’s Danny and Sandy,” while watching the dance on TV.
Dec 28, 2022 · December 28, 2022. Directed by Randal Kleiser, ‘Grease’ is an iconic musical romantic movie that tells the story of two teenagers, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. During the 1958 summer break, the pair meets each other for the first time at the beach. However, their summer love comes to an end when school starts again.
A musical about teens in love in the 1950s. It's California 1958 and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High.
Jan 26, 2016 · Despite a modest budget, indifferent studio, and several unproven twentysomethings playing teenagers, the film became a national phenomenon, launching John Travolta along with it. As Fox preps a ...
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Sep 15, 2018 · With the tone duly set, Grease was seismic not just as a prototypical teen movie, but as a film that challenged (as opposed to upholding) sexism on both sides.
