Footloose (1984)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 15
There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.
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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. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Feb 17, 1984 Wide
Oct 8, 2002
Paramount Home Video
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Kevin Bacon
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John Lithgow
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Dianne Wiest
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Chris Penn
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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John Laughlin
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Jim Youngs
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Frances Lee McCain
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Douglas Dirkson
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Jay Bernard
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Meghan Broadhead
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Mimi Broadhead
Amy -
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Leo Geter
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Alan Haufrect
Roger Dunbar -
Linda MacEwen
Eleanor Dunbar -
Lynne Marta
Lulu -
H.E.D. Redford
Widdoes -
Arthur Rosenberg
Wes -
Oscar Rowland
Mr. Walsh -
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Timothy Scott
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Michael Telmont
Travis -
Peter Tramm
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Brian Wimmer
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Marcia Yvette Reider
Virginia -
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Gene Pack
Bernie -
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Russ McGinn
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John Perryman
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David Valenza
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John Bishop
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (16) | DVD (36)
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.
A cynical and manipulative exercise with little feel for the teen culture it purports to celebrate.
Top CriticFootloose 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
A dated rebellion tale.
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.
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.
OK teen flick that time has treated kindly.
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