Footloose

[1984, Movie]

Footloose: Review

Dressing its familiar plot in 1980s garb, FOOTLOOSE was a gigantic smash at the box office and, in a triumph of style over substance, joined FLASHDANCE and others in a parade of music video-influenced films scored with pop songs by big-name artists. Teenager Bacon moves with his mother McCain from Chicago to a small Midwestern town. There his disorientation is compounded by a prohibition of dancing or playing rock music in his new home town because local leader Lithgow, a fun... read more

Footloose: Cast & Details

Year: 1984
Rated PG

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Cast
Kevin Bacon: Ren
Lori Singer: Ariel
John Lithgow: Rev. Shaw Moore
Dianne Wiest: Vi Moore
Christopher Penn: Willard
Sarah Jessica Parker: Rusty

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Footloose: TV Guide News

The Closer: Director Kevin Bacon Promises Big Shocks | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/13/2007
If you thought, as I did, the aftermath of the shooting that concluded last week's episode of TNT's The Closer (Mondays at 9 pm/ET) seemed a bit pat, rest assured that things are not as they seem. Because amidst the anxiety Brenda is dealing with as a result of her early-onset-menopause diagnosis, the tough-talking deputy police chief is this week forced to do the thing she hates most ? and as her parents pay a most important visit, no less. Kevin Bacon, who directed his wife Kyra Sedgwick and . read more
Kevin Bacon Clears the Air About Footloose Remake | Today's News: Our Take | 8/9/2007
While speaking with Kevin Bacon about this Monday's episode of The Closer, where he once again directed wife Kyra Sedgwick, TVGuide.com asked for the actor's thoughts on the recently announced Footloose remake starring High School Musical's Zac Efron. "I've heard about it," says Bacon, "and it's great, but of course the truth is they're not really remaking the movie that I was in. They're remaking the Broadway musical [which premiered on the planks in 1998]."In other words, what we have here is a situation exactly à la Hairspray, says Bacon. "You had a movie that was not a musical becoming a Broadway musical, and they make a movie of that."Nonetheless, does Bacon find a certain added validation in that something he did so long ago keeps on dancing? With a near-chuckle, he answers, "Um, I can find validation other ways."Look for my complete Q&A with Bacon in Monday's Interviews & Features.Related: Zac Efron Brings Home the Bacon in Footloose Redo read more
Zac Efron Brings Home the Bacon in Footloose Redo | Today's News: Our Take | 7/11/2007
Let's hear it for the boy! Paramount is developing a full-blown musical remake of 1984's Footloose, with High School Musical cutie Zac Efron picking up where Kevin Bacon's be-bopping, Walkman-toting Ren left off. HSM helmer Kenny Ortega is in talks to both choreograph and direct the redo. The original Footloose, for those so young you sicken me, concerned a rebellious newcomer's arrival in a small town that has banned dancing. (And no, it's not where Ashlee Simpson lives.)Related: Kevin Bacon Clears the Air About Footloose Remake read more
Televisionary | 2/14/2006
Greetings! Pandy (from your Jan. 31 column) is just very confused. She's actually thinking of the show read more
The Watercooler | 1/13/2006
The O.C.'Donna Martin graduates! Donna Martin graduates!' That was one of my all-time favorite Bev read more