Sentences with phrase «footloose hit»

Footloose Rated PG - 13 for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray When the original Footloose hit theaters back in 1984 it was a huge sensation.

Back in 1995, when the album R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth) was released — a mere 11 years after Footloose hit theaters — factory dance - offs were still seen as a legitimate form of protest.

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In case you haven't heard, there's a Footloose remake hitting theaters next month.

The new Footloose, it turns out, is not all that different — in plot, characters and themes — from the original, which was a box - office hit and made a star of Kevin Bacon, playing a spirited city teenager who moves to a small town where dancing is banned and who endeavours to overturn the law so he and his classmates can hold a proper senior prom.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

The long list of pointless remakes expands by one to include Footloose, a lively yet very faithful retelling of the 1984 box - office hit about kids» rights to dance.

To celebrate the Blu - ray release of «Footloose» on March 6th, 2012, Paramount Home Media Distribution is giving fans of the hit film Footloose the chance to win a dance inspired by the movie for their school!

Considering Real Steel had the higher per theater average despite being in its second week, my money is on that one taking another 40 % hit, earning another $ 10 million and just edging out Footloose.