Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another (including "Stayin' Alive"), we watch white-suited Tony strut his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his
Dec 19, 1977 Wide
Aug 10, 2002
Paramount Pictures
Cast
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John Travolta
Tony Manero -
Karen Lynn Gorney
Stephanie -
Barry Miller
Bobby C. -
Joseph Cali
Joey -
Paul Pape
Double J. -
Bruce Ornstein
Gus -
Donna Pescow
Annette -
Val Bisoglio
Frank Sr. -
Julie Bovasso
Flo -
Nina Hansen
Grandmother -
Lisa Peluso
Linda -
Sam Coppola
Fusco -
Denny Dillon
Doreen -
Bert Michaels
Pete -
Donald Gantry
Jay Langhart -
Shelly Batt
Girl in Disco -
Robert Costanzo
Paint Store Customer -
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Fran Drescher
Connie -
Murray Moston
Haberdashery Salesman -
Monte Rock III
Deejay -
Martin Shakar
Frank Jr. -
Ann Travolta
Pizza Girl -
Helen Travolta
Woman in Paint Store -
Robert Weil
Becker -
Ellen March
Bartender -
William Andrews
Detective -
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All Critics (40) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (5) | DVD (35)
A small, solid film, made with craft if not resonance.
Top CriticTravolta's characterization, given the script and directorial demands, is okay. It will please the already-committed; but it won't win him any new fans.
In the end, the real killer is the movie's abject sincerity.
Mr. Travolta is deft and vibrant, and he never condescends to the character, not even in a scene that has Tony and Stephanie arguing about whose Romeo and Juliet it is, Zeffirelli's or Shakespeare's.
There's a lot in the movie that's sad and painful, but after a few years what you remember is John Travolta on the dance floor in that classic white disco suit, and the Bee Gees on the soundtrack.
Disco drama is not just daaancin' yeah!
In a just world, this movie would've been soundtracked with Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" and Diana Ross's "Love Hangover." So, in other words, the soundtrack to Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story.
...one cannot dismiss its cultural significance, which today may be part of its campy appeal. (Blu-ray Edition)
Today, it's like a kind of '70s jukebox that hasn't quite aged that well.
The omission of John Travolta in any of the commentaries or documentaries is a major shadow that the new disc cannot get out from.
John Badham's film (his best to date), a zeitgeist picture that captures the disco subculture of the 1970s like no other work, features a star-making performance from John Travolta who dominates every frame.
My "how to" book as a teenage.
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Foreign Titles
- Nur Samstag Nacht (DE)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977) (UK)
