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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.

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.

Not exact matches

The «Footloose» remake, much like the original film, follows Ren (now played by Kenny Wormald) as he moves from a northern city to a small southern town.

While the «Footloose» remake doesn't differ much from the original musical - drama, in terms of the characters and plot - line, Brewer was able to successfully modernize the tale while staying true to its important message.

So I finally cut the original «Footloose,» can you believe it?

But this Footloose remake is pretty well done, with clever nods to the original alongside subtle improvements.

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.

I have to give director and co-writer (he shares credit with original «Footloose» scribe Dean Pitchford) Brewer credit.

«Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose» focuses on the original film with comments from the cast and crew and its remake process.

When: October 14th Why: I know what you're thinking: who in their right mind wants to see a remake of «Footloose» when they can just watch the 1984 original starring Kevin Bacon?

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The name Footloose is so synonymous with Kevin Bacon's 1984 original that a remake would always be tough.

I'm now a Kenny Wormald fan and can say, having seen it myself, that Craig Brewer's Footloose does live up to the original.

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.