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Footloose

Movie
1984
1h 47m
PG
English
Drama, Romance
User Score: 
6.8
Critic Score: 
48
Footloose' Poster
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Footloose Poster

Footloose

PG
Movie
1984
1h 47m
English
Drama, Romance
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Rating
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6.8
IMDB
Footloose (1984) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
48

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Directed By: Herbert Ross
Written By: Dean Pitchford (Screenplay)

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anaximandus says...
14 years ago
Did NOT need a remake!
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garethpauljones-deleted-1471201047 says...
9 years ago
Sometimes you just have to dance even if you're not allowed to. Whilst I quite enjoyed the lively 80s soundtrack I found the story itself to be a bit flat, predictable, and boring. There could have been a better ending as well as I felt that it left a couple of loose ends.
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nmahoney416 says...
7 years ago
The soundtrack is great. The dance scenes are fun. Everything else is kinda meh. I thought it would be better with how relevant it is in pop culture.
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lena says...
11 years ago
Is this town crazy or what?Best starting credits ever and Ren is one of the best male characters in this kind of a movie. And great hair too!!!
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Featured User Reviews

drqshadow
7/10  8 months ago
Hip teen Kevin Bacon moves from the big city to a podunk town in the sticks, where he’s shocked to learn that dancing has been forbidden. The absurd legal prohibition frustrates his fellow high schoolers, but they find other ways to act out. Particularly Ariel, the preacher’s daughter, a would-b More
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GenerationofSwine
2 years ago
It's still one of my favorites and I could hardly walk when it first came out.

And now it's legend, so writing a real review is almost needless. Just about everyone has seen it. It's still regarded as a classic.

So I suppose the best thing to say is that it's like the Karate Kid...only with da More
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Wuchak
6 years ago
"A time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4

RELEASED IN 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” chronicles events in the small Western town of Bomont where dancing and loud music have been outlawed because of an accident that killed some kids years earlier. Preacher’s d More
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