Footloose

UPC: 097361456645

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Youth Substance Use, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: 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

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Original Song – null Best Original Song – null Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Let's Dance! Kevin Bacon on Footloose (HD)

From Bomont to the Big Apple: An Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker (HD)

Remembering Willard (HD)
Kevin Bacon's Screen Test (HD)
Kevin Bacon Costume Montage (HD)
Plus Archival Commentary and Features

Footloose

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/27/2011

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 107 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Derek Armstrong

In addition to boasting one of the most popular movie soundtracks of all time, Footloose made a star of Kevin Bacon, the rebel with a cause at the center of this infectious celebration of dance that became a cultural phenomenon. Footloose is also one of the earliest movies to be clearly inspired by MTV, with its episodic narrative structure and songs staged as miniature emotional operas. When Bacon's bad boy pours out his angst through dance and aggressive gymnastics in a closed factory, swigging from a beer while blowing out plumes of smoke, all to the tune of "Holding out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, his mythic posturing is made in music video heaven. But there's a lot more than teenage disobedience in Footloose. It's also a sensitive portrait of Midwestern values, which don't clash nearly so much as Bacon's dance proponents or John Lithgow's worried churchgoers think they do. Lithgow's performance is especially complicated and heartfelt; the reluctant villain because he stands between the teens and their desire to cut loose, he really only wants to save them from themselves, having personally experienced tragedy caused by recklessness. Dianne Wiest balances her husband's conscience with her daughter's desire to embrace youth, making for another stand-out performance. Genuinely rousing, if perhaps willfully na?ve and formulaic, Footloose is most winning during its dance sequences, the specialty of director/choreographer Herbert Ross. The movie held such lingering appeal in the popular consciousness that it inspired a successful Broadway musical -- almost 15 years after its theatrical release. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Meghan Broadhead  Actor 
Linda MacEwen  Actor 
Timothy Scott  Actor 
Norman Howell  Actor 
Jane Feinberg  Actor 
Donna Garrett  Actor 
Michael Telmont  Actor 
Marcia Yvette Reider  Actor 
Russ McGinn  Actor 
Oscar Rowland  Actor 
Margery Simkin  Actor 
Robert Allen  Actor 
H.E.D. Redford  Actor 
Gene Pack  Actor 
David Valenza  Actor 
Alan Haufrect  Actor 
Arthur Rosenberg  Actor 
Brian Wimmer  Actor 
Monica Silva  Actor 
Jay Bernard  Actor 
John-Clay Scott  Actor 
Mike Fenton  Actor 
John Bishop  Actor 
Leo Geter  Actor 
Peter Tramm  Actor 
Clair E. Leucart  Actor 
John Perryman  Actor 
Mimi Broadhead  Actor 
Lynne Marta  Actor 
Lane Parrish  Actor 
Daniel K. Moore  Actor 
Miles Goodman  Composer (Music Score) 
Kenny Loggins  Composer (Music Score) 
Daniel Melnick  Executive Producer 
Daniel Melnick  Producer 
Dean Pitchford  Composer (Music Score) 
Dean Pitchford  Screenwriter 
Lewis Rachmil  Producer 
Herbert Ross  Director 
Tom Snow  Composer (Music Score) 
Craig Zadan  Producer 
Kevin Bacon  Actor 
Lori Singer  Actor 
John Lithgow  Actor 
Dianne Wiest  Actor 
Chris Penn  Actor 
Sarah Jessica Parker  Actor 
John Laughlin  Actor 
Jim Youngs  Actor 
Lee McCain  Actor 
Elizabeth Gorcey  Actor 
Douglas Dirkson  Actor 

Country: USA