Footloose

Kevin Bacon Director: Herbert Ross Herbert Ross

Overview

In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers, who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/28/2020
UPC:	0032429335210
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	PG
Source:	Paramount
Sound:	[Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound]
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	21,773

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Bacon	Ren McCormack
Lori Singer	Ariel Moore
John Lithgow	Rev. Shaw Moore
Dianne Wiest	Vi Moore
Chris Penn	Willard
Sarah Jessica Parker	Rusty
John Laughlin	Woody
Jim Youngs	Chuck
Lee McCain	Ethel McCormack
Elizabeth Gorcey	Wendy Jo
Douglas Dirkson	Burlington
Robert Allen	Actor
Jane Feinberg	Actor
Mike Fenton	Actor
Donna Garrett	Actor
Norman Howell	Actor
Clair E. Leucart	Actor
Daniel K. Moore	Actor
Lane Parrish	Actor
John-Clay Scott	Actor
Monica Silva	Actor
Margery Simkin	Actor
Peter Tramm	Stunt Dancer
Russ McGinn	Herb
David Valenza	Team Member
Lynne Marta	Lulu
Arthur Rosenberg	Wes
Timothy Scott	Andy Beamis
Alan Haufrect	Roger Dunbar
Linda MacEwen	Eleanor Dunbar
Michael Telmont	Travis
Leo Geter	Rich
H.E.D. Redford	Widdoes
Jay Bernard	Harvey
Meghan Broadhead	Sarah
Mimi Broadhead	Amy
Gene Pack	Bernie
Marcia Yvette Reider	Virginia
John Perryman	Fat Cowboy
Oscar Rowland	Mr. Walsh
John Bishop	Elvis
Brian Wimmer	Uncredited

Technical Credits

Dean Pitchford

Herbert Ross	Director
Wayne Beauchamp	Special Effects
Miles Goodman	Score Composer
Gloria Gresham	Costumes/Costume Designer
Paul Hirsch	Editor
Ron Hobbs	Production Designer
Max Kleven	Stunts
Marci Liroff	Casting
Kenny Loggins	Score Composer
Daniel Melnick	Executive Producer
Al Overton	Sound/Sound Designer
Dean Pitchford	Score Composer,Screenwriter
Lewis Rachmil	Producer
Tom Snow	Score Composer
L. Andrew Stone	Asst. Director
Mary Olivia Swanson	Set Decoration/Design
Lynne Taylor-Corbett	Choreography
Ric Waite	Cinematographer
Craig Zadan	Producer

Editorial Reviews

In addition to boasting one of the most popular movie soundtracks of all time, Footloose made a star of Kevin Bacon, the rebel with a cause at the center of this infectious celebration of dance that became a cultural phenomenon. Footloose is also one of the earliest movies to be clearly inspired by MTV, with its episodic narrative structure and songs staged as miniature emotional operas. When Bacon's bad boy pours out his angst through dance and aggressive gymnastics in a closed factory, swigging from a beer while blowing out plumes of smoke, all to the tune of "Holding out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, his mythic posturing is made in music video heaven. But there's a lot more than teenage disobedience in Footloose. It's also a sensitive portrait of Midwestern values, which don't clash nearly so much as Bacon's dance proponents or John Lithgow's worried churchgoers think they do. Lithgow's performance is especially complicated and heartfelt; the reluctant villain because he stands between the teens and their desire to cut loose, he really only wants to save them from themselves, having personally experienced tragedy caused by recklessness. Dianne Wiest balances her husband's conscience with her daughter's desire to embrace youth, making for another stand-out performance. Genuinely rousing, if perhaps willfully naïve and formulaic, Footloose is most winning during its dance sequences, the specialty of director/choreographer Herbert Ross. The movie held such lingering appeal in the popular consciousness that it inspired a successful Broadway musical -- almost 15 years after its theatrical release.

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