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Essential to the result is young Kevin Bacon, superb in the lead part.
Herbert Ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of rock music and didactic melodrama.
Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.
Like the rest of today's video-happy teen-age entertainments, Footloose doesn't expect to be watched closely or taken seriously. It wants to fill the screen with catchy music and pretty kids, and this it certainly accomplishes.
For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.
reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since
Footloose wasn't exactly a critical fave, but it didn't try to be hip and it had a relatively light touch, with recognizable human beings on the screen.
The movie features some good dancing -- not nearly enough, however -- and a fine, understated performance by Lithgow in a role that might easily lend itself to caricature.
A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.
An 80s milestone, for better or for worse... and a key link to any game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
A lively and entertaining youth drama about the coming of change in a repressive small town.
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