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The film was directed by Sylvester Stallone, who co-produced and co-wrote the film with original Fever producer Robert Stigwood, and writer Norman Wexler. Staying Alive stars John Travolta, reprising his Saturday Night Fever role as Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Julie Bovasso, Viktor Manoel and Kevyn Morrow.
Apr 9, 2009 · Tony Manero, the second film from writer-director Pablo Larrain, makes for a brilliantly clammy and unnerving piece of work. The action unfolds in a shiver of handheld camerawork and grainy ...
When he gets wind of a TV contest seeking the best imitation of Tony Manero, the main character from the film, he becomes fixated on winning. But as Raul becomes involved in nefarious activities ...
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Tony Manero is a bleak and jarring chilean film set during Pinochet's dictatorship, it tells Raúl's story, a man obsessed with John Travolta's character and dance moves in Saturday Night Fever. Sounds quirky and even funny, I promise it isn't.
Tony Manero is an uneducated, immature Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. He lives with his abusive, overbearing parents, and works at a dead-end job at a small paint store. Tony meets Stephanie Mangano at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition.
Apr 11, 2009 · Alfredo Castro, who looks like a seedy version of Al Pacino, plays Raúl, a ratty 55-year-old layabout performing with a troupe of dancers in a run-down cabaret and bar in one of Santiago's less ...
Mar 7, 1999 · In a way, Tony Manero represented the kind of adolescence Gene didn't have, just as Marcello, the hero of "La Dolce Vita,'' led the kind of life I once lusted for. The most lasting images are its joyous ones, of Tony strutting down a sidewalk, dressing for the evening and dominating the disco floor in a solo dance that audiences often applaud.
