Footloose (DVD)

Footloose is one of those films I've been meaning to see for quite some time but just never got round to doing so. I've heard most of the songs and amazingly know quite a lot of the words to them but for some strange reason that has often escaped me I have never actually seen the film - that is of course until last week. With some HMV vouchers I had earned from a survey site I am a member of I decided that it was high time I actually bought and ...
...beginning to end. Footloose was released in 1984 and stars Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer as Ren McCormack and Ariel Moore respectively. The film is a musical that combines fantastic singing and dancing into a strangely touching story about a town in which dancing is forbidden. Ren is a city boy fond of singing, dancing and generally having a good time but the small town to which he has just moved shares none of his taste. That isn't to say that many ...

MI9to5 12.11.2008 (15.02.2009) · Read full review
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this is a great film these are the different characters involved and what they bring to this amazing film. KEVIN BACON plays Ren Mac-Cormack a teenager raised in Chicago who moves to a small town were basically anything good or fun is banned and this unfortunately includes two things he has great enthusiasm and great passion towards which is music and dancing they were banned by the strict Reverend Shaw Moore. Its not long into the time Ren has moved ...
...feel unwelcome with there outdated beliefs. When he disagrees with one woman's views on a book called slaughter house five after she voices her concerns to the reverent saying slaughter house five isn't that a awful name to which Ren replies its a great book slaughter house five its a classic only to get a rather defensive reply when she says maybe in another town its a classic unable to set her strict views aside and completely discounting Rens ...

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...pull off an enjoyable watch. Footloose has the power to get you involved in the story and gets your memories flowing all at the same time. There were times when I wanted to be in the film actually, it has such a powerful feel good atmosphere about it. The tractor chicken race is especially fabulous with Ren and Chuck facing off in tractors to the theme of Bonnie Tyler's "I need a hero". Fantastic! My cheeks were hurting by the end of it, from such ...
...rebellious preachers daughter is fantastic. I read she beat Madonna to get the role and I am very pleased. I love Madonna, but she is a singer, not an actress and she would have spoilt this film so badly. Lori Singer, for me had a touch of class in her looks, tall and delicate, yet bold and brash at the same time. The inevitable romance with Bacon is done at a tantalising pace and a few classic one-liners, like when she says to Bacon "Do you wanna ...

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First of all I have to say sorry for my English. My name is Marion and I come from the german Ciao-community. Although I've been learning your language for more than eight years now I will never become perfect in speaking or writing it. So I hope you will understand everything ;-) Actually I do not like this kind of films. I find Saturday Night Fever die boring and Flashdance is also not much better. Just Dirty Dancing pleases me still, even if ...
...ridiculous always dancing has to occur in these films?? * g * and if I had read the title "Footloose" with the description "dance film" in a program magazine I certainly would not have watched the film anytime! But how did I come to this film? Now, sometimes I saw the videoclip on the transmitter VH-1 once to the Song "Footloose" from Kenny Loggins. The song pleased me and fastly I found out that it belongs to the Soundtrack of the movie "Footloose". ...

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I feel as though I have neglected Ciao for a while now, so I have decided to write a new review: Foot loose: staring Kevin bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne West and John lithgow. 1984, Paramount Pictures, Director: Herbert Russ Can you imagine worlds were Rock and Roll music, television and dancing was a sin! Well in the small town of Beaumont this is exactly what life is like. When new boy Ren (Kevin Bacon) arrives from Chicago I’m not sure who gets ...
...town dressed like David Bowie, music blaring from his car and turns the town on its head. He is not the only rebel in the town, Ariel (Lori Singer) the reverends daughter has a little more than music on her mind when she sees new boy Ren. Rebelling against her father’s wishes she helps Ren plan a town dance. There is a little more to this story than meets the eye, we discover that 5 years ago a group of kids headed out of town to watch a Rock and ...

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This has to be one of the most underrated classic films of the 80's (although that probably sounds like an insult - it's not!). A youthful Kevin Bacon, who hasn't changed a bit in 15 years and still looks as fresh faced now as he did then. He is also still the most underrated actor in Hollywood alongside John Cusack (Remember the game "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon"). Right enough about the lovely Kev, let's talk about the film. Basic plot: City boy moves ...
...and instills major culture shock in the town. Romances daughter (Lori Singer) of local vicar (John Lithgow of "3rd Rock From the Sun fame), who was responsible for the change in laws after the death of his son. This makes him even more unpopular. Undeterred he incites the students into holding a prom (they eventually get round the laws by hosting it in a neighbouring town), which pits the students against the adults. Still of course this is Hollywood, ...

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I fist saw this film when I was flicking through the channels at about 11pm one Saturday evening about a year and a half ago. The first thing that made me stay on the channel was seeing that Sarah Jessica Parker was in it. Being a Sex And The City fan, I decided to watch. As I continued to watch, I saw the Film's all star cast. With actors such as John Lythgoe and Chris Penn -who wouldn't settle down to watch this film? Oh....I forgot to mention, ...
...from Bacon, in this, my favourite of all his many films. The story is thus: New boy Renn (Bacon)moves to a small town from a Big City. When he gets there, he finds that the whole town is lead by the church and priest Lythgoe. Despite it being the 80s, Dancing is banned in the town, and therefore the High School kids are not allowed to have a school dance. All of this has been accepted, until Renn shows up. With an attitude that means he's not ...

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Ben McCormick (Kevin Bacon), and his mother move to the town of Bowmont, a town where alcohol, smoking and dancing has been banned because of a previous accident involving a group of teenagers that came to their deaths in a drunk driving accident. The town is now based on the holy book and any hint of ‘corruption’, is looked upon as being sinful and must be dealt with promptly by the towns Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow). The Reverend ...
...being the opposite to her father and that results in many father/daughter clashes. Ben finds the towns ways incredibly weird and sets out to get the town to agree to have a prom. The town council has branded Ben as a corrupt boy that must be stopped and reborn into the church of Christ. But Ben, does not see the error of his ways and continues to fight against the town so the teenagers can have a traditional prom, in their own town without having ...

michellej 31.08.2000 (08.03.2001) · Read full review
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Film that stars Kevin Bacon as Ben Mccormick Lori Singer who plays Ariel the daughter of a reverend played by John Lithgow. Sarah Jessica Parker who plays Ariels best friend. Directed by Herbert Russ Produced by Paramount. Set in the 80s based on a true story where in a small town some teenagers where at a party and an accident ended with death. So music,dancing were banned as it was said to be the cause of the death. Rev Shaw Moore is definite ...
...it will not happen. Ben arrives from the Big city and finds this very strange and is determined to change this. Music sound tracks included; Lets hear for the boys, Holding out for a hero and of course Footloose. EXcellent 80s film if you like this sort of thing ...

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