Sentences with phrase «movie footloose»

The male director of classic movie Footloose had to convince a female executive that their proposed leading man Kevin Bacon was sexy enough to play...

Paramount has released a new trailer for the remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie Footloose.

Like Kevin Bacon in the movie Footloose, he won gratitude for the gift of danceand Sony discovered what the town fathers in that film learned: forbidding dancing is really, really bad for public relations.

Not exact matches

This weeks news covers Skout, eHarmony, IC3, and Mobestar along with my favorite April 1st joke, Steve Wozniak in the new Footloose movie.

Brewer is a natural fit for the material, being a self - admitted Footloose fan, a teenager of the»80s, a music - lover, a connoisseur of the South, and a parent, and all of which he draws upon to make the movie smarter than it needs to be.

The story of the movie is echoed in the way the dances are put together, from the makeup of the town (which is more diverse and real - looking than in the original Footloose) to the relationship between characters.

For such an iconic dance movie, Footloose is an odd bird of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.

Footloose thankfully avoids the most heinous of dance - movie pitfalls: casting actors who can only do half the job, either actors who can't dance or dancers who can't act.

The world didn't need a remake of Footloose, the 1984 movie where outsider - rebel Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) takes on a town - wide ban against public dancing.

Eventually she spread her wings, leaving the comfortable nest of Dancing With the Stars in order to appear in movies like Burlesque, Footloose, and the hair - metal jukebox musical Rock of Ages.

«Thelma & Louise» is a rare thrill - a gleefully offbeat road movie in which two women, instead of the usual footloose fellas, exult in the heady freedom of America's lonesome highways.

Footloose isn't a movie that's looking to rebel.

Among the many notable albums of 1984 are the soundtracks for This Is Spinal Tap, Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain and Footloose — very different music, very different movies, but all influential and enduring cultural artifacts.

Echols thought the movie was bad, but I'll bet he will be tempted, for old time's sake, to see two other remakes of films he remembers from before his fall: Footloose and The Thing.

In the aftermath of the movie's first Cannes screening, many journalists made the obvious comparison with «Footloose,» in which teen rock lover Kevin Bacon runs up against buttoned - up priest John Lithgow.

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If the Footloose remake had its own signature dance, it'd be called the Push - Pull, as this hip - to - be-sorta-square movie, much like the small - town teens within it, has a mind for propelling itself toward a progressive future while continually being yanked back by cherished hallmarks of the past.

Julianne Hough (c.) and Kenny Wormald are shown in a scene from the remake of the 1984 movie «Footloose,» as a small Southern town learns to let its teenagers have fun.

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!

Kevin Bacon had to rent his own Footloose movie last year (14) to help him remember his dance moves for a planned 30th anniversary sketch on U.S....

We've already had new versions of Footloose, The Karate Kid and Red Dawn, and the craze for remaking iconic 1980s movies seems destined to continue.

Connoisseurs of such will find its top - shelf qualities to include a Witness - like star - cross'd pas de deux; dead wives and sons; surrogate wives and sons; surrogate father figures fighting, Footloose - like, against oppressive cultures; a Fisher King rescue from insanity; and enough war - movie boilerplate to choke a War Horse.

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Teller hadn't seen the original «Footloose,» either, despite the fact that he might be the only person in show business history to play a character in a mainstream Hollywood movie after playing the role in a high school production.

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>> Kevin Bacon celebrated the 30th anniversary of the movie that made him a star, Footloose, with this pic on WhoSay, captioned: «It was 30 years ago today.

i havent been able to watch the new «footloose»... how many times did we see it at the movies as teenagers???? we knew the short film b4 (showing our ages there!)

I so hear you about these movies, especially Breakfast Club and Footloose.

It's popped up on Facebook this week that Footloose is turning 30 and Reality Bites is turning 20 and it's made me all sentimental for the movies that I loved back in my young, carefree days.