Kevin Bacon, Chris Penn, Dianne Wiest

When a city kid is forced to move to a conservative midwestern town, his tastes in rock music and his gyrating dance moves turn his high school upside-down and send the town and it's local preacher in...( read more  read more... )to a frenzy.

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73% liked it

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56% liked it

32 critics

PG, 107 min.

Directed by: Herbert Ross

Release Date: February 17, 1984

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DVD Release Date: October 8, 2002

Stats: 10,331 reviews

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  • September 30, 2009
    Makes me want to dance around in an abandoned warehouse! In fact, I think I might do tomorrow!
  • June 10, 2009
    Lori Singer is still hot..lol
    Classic movie and i still play the soundtrack..
  • November 10, 2008
    Ah, the innocence of first love -- and love of dance. I saw this for the first time in 2008 which is pretty bad - 25 years after it was made. Too bad that Lori Singer only had a 10 year career as an actress.
  • July 2, 2008
    The song is the only redeeming factor.
  • June 29, 2008
    Kevin Bacons shining moment? I dont know but i still watch this one I catch it on TV. Fun movie.
  • October 31, 2009
    A classic Kevin Bacon film. This will always be Kevin's most famous role. This is basically a rebel movie. About a city boy who moves to a small town. This town does not like rock and roll or dancing in fear their teenage population will get out of contorl with sex and drinking. ...( read more)Of course this new kid helps change the way the town thinks. It's just about some innoccent fun and dancing. This is a classic now from the 80's. With a solid cast and story and a great soundtrack makes for a good film.
  • October 23, 2009
    best film....love dance...
  • October 12, 2009
    I put this off for years because I hate dance movies. But, everyone in the world has seen this so I figured I might as well. It was ok, but the acting was pretty bad from everyone except Kevin Bacon, and obviously a major part of the plot was about dancing and bible-y things, so ...( read more)it was kind of lame. But, there was some good music in it, so I got excited when songs I liked played =P
  • October 6, 2009
    This was a cool movie...Haven't seen it in awhile
  • October 2, 2009
    love kevin bacon love the dances and the songs just love the film all the way t6hrouygh

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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. full review

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  • jeane691
    October 30, 2009
    i wonder if anyone can tell me who the stunt dancer was for Kevin Bacon, was it Patrick Swayze?
  • davec67
    April 2, 2008
    Hi,

    I'm Dave - I work for So television in London. We're making the Graham Norton show and we're looking for footloose fans to join our audience (for free) as we have Kevin Bacon on our show and we will be doing a lot about footloose on the programme. Kevin will be Graham's guests on Wednesday the 16th of April in London. If you are a big fan and would like to be in our audience please e mail me at davec@sotelevision.co.uk or call me on 02079602046. It'll be really good fun.

    Thanks,
    Dave
  • Aritosgold
    November 7, 2007
    Very good movie;;
  • LindsayLohanFan
    November 5, 2007
    This movie is the best
  • bohemiacallada
    July 16, 2007
    I love this movie
  • thacent
    July 14, 2007
    this was awsome
  • piratelover09
    September 17, 2006
    My high school performed a musical based on this AMAZING movie last year!! We did so good!

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