Saturday Night Fever |  | Actors: Shelly Batt, Val Bisoglio, Julie Bovasso, Joseph Cali, Sam Coppola
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.7 x 0.7
MPN: PARD011134D
ISBN: 079218016X
UPC: 097360111347
EAN: 9780792180166
ASIN: B00003CXCH
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Release Date: October 8, 2002
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A brooklyn youth feels his only chance to get somewhere is as the king of the disco floor. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: John Travolta Martin Shaker Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: John Badham
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Saturday Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's release in 1977, disco ruled the dance floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub; Tony's brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" (Travolta's theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The Oscar®-nominated Travolta, plucked from the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter, for his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules. --Robert Horton
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 Saturday Night Fever January 18, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a paint store. However, things begin to change when he spies Stephanie in the disco and starts training with her for the club's dance competition. Stephanie dreams of the world beyond Brooklyn, and her plans to move to the big city just over the bridge soon change Tony's life forever. Watching Travolta shimmy across that dancefloor to that funky disco music, makes you realize that this movie is like no other, and the soundtrack features some of the best disco music ever made. It is, quite simply, amazing.
Deservedly a classic January 11, 2010
Irfan A. Alvi (Towson, MD USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When you watch this movie three decades after its release, you realize that some movies indeed have something special which enables them become classics which alter the shape of popular culture for more than a generation, rather than merely disappearing quietly into the crowd like countless other movies.
The main theme, which will probably always be relevant for many Americans, is struggling to move beyond a crappy working-class background in order to live a better life. Of course, not everyone in such circumstances will have this urge, but there will always be a few who sense that they're meant for higher things, even if that means breaking their ties with their familiar world. The lead character of Tony, embodied superbly by John Travolta, exemplifies just such a person.
Tony's setting is the hedonistic culture of 1970s Brooklyn, which is portrayed without pulling any punches. The level of crassness and vulgarity may shock you in many ways, particularly if (like me) you're not quite old enough to have seen this subculture firsthand. To illustrate the world Tony lives in, consider what a drag his social influences are: his family and friends are uneducated; his father is an unemployed construction worker; his brother becomes a priest, but then quits because he only did it for his parents in the first place; his friends use drugs, exploit women, and are quick to pick a fight with other ethnic groups; he works in a paint store and his boss would like to hold him there indefinitely at the lowest pay he can get away with; and, to top it off, one of his friends dies by falling off a bridge, winding up there largely because he couldn't cope with having a pregnant girlfriend. Of course it could always get worse, but this is plenty bad. However, there's one distinct positive in Tony's life: he meets a girl who's has some exposure to a better life, and this in turn plants a vital seed in him ...
Tony's most prominent talent and passion is dancing, and we're indeed treated to plenty of iconic disco dancing (fun to watch, even if you don't care for this genre). And let's also not forget the equally iconic soundtrack by the Bee Gees, full of uniquely great songs which have become just as classic as the movie. But the movie appropriately ends by showing that Tony realizes that dancing isn't necessarily his ticket to a better life, so he may need to dig deeper in order to forge a more realistic path. And we finish the movie with a hopeful feeling, because Tony seems committed to doing just that.
Summing up, again, this movie is deservedly a classic which was an important event in American (pop) cultural history, so I not only recommend it, but I would say that watching it is an important part of everyone's cultural education. And if, like me, you know young people in circumstances not entirely unlike Tony's, this movie may be especially poignant for you.
Sizzling Hot! January 10, 2010
If you love disco like I do, you will absolutely love the movie, "Saturday Night Fever", with John Travolta. I have found that if you pause the VCR player during certain dance solo sequences, you could essentially teach yourself the dance moves for weight loss exercise or to show off during live outdoor car cruise concerts. You will never get tired of watching this movie over and over again!
 Not what I expected !!! December 30, 2009
F. Ceraldi
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the dancing in this movie and Johnny Travolta is great in this movie but there are some aspects of this movie I did not expect. I thought there would be more dancing scenes and I was disappointed. The movie is more raw than I remembered it. Needless to say I wasn't all that impressed with a movie I thought would be better for a classic.
"Night Fever, Night Fever. We know how to show it" December 22, 2009
M. Peterson (Newark, New Jersey)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
LOVE "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER"!! I ALSO LOVE THE SPECIAL FEATURES, BUT I WISH THEY TALKED TO JOHN TRAVOLTA, BECAUSE THAT WOULD HAVE TOPPED IT OFF. OVERALL, THIS IS A CLASSIC MOVIE AND A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION.
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