Written by Dean
Pitchford. Directed by Herbert Ross. Starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne
Wiest and John Lithgow. USA, 1984.
I try to watch movies
I’ve never seen before for Romancefest, but I make exceptions here and there
for movies I saw so long ago that I might as well watch them again and
FOOTLOOSE is one of them. The tale of the town where dancing is outlawed and
the raffish ne’re-do-well new kid in town who liberates the youth when he
brings dancing back.
Of course Kevin Bacon is
great as the dancing rebel with a cause, and the soundtrack is great as well,
not just for the Kenny Loggins hit but everything else as well. This time
around Chris Penn’s performance as a country kid who can’t dance and learns
from Bacon captured most of my attention. My favorite sequence by far was
learning-to-dance montage, and I liked the “love” story between Bacon and Penn
even more than the main one with Lori Singer. I also noticed this time that
John Lithgow, as the preacher behind the dance ban, actually plays a believable
three dimensional character and not the reactionary monster that I remember
from my childhood.
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