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Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn.
The title comes from the Bee Gees song of the same name, which was used as the theme song to Saturday Night Fever and is played during the final scene of Staying Alive. Theatrically released on July 15, 1983, Staying Alive received universally negative reviews and is the oldest film to hold a score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite this, the ...
In 1990, Lorne Michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled The Saturday Night Live Movie with many of the show's then-current writing staff, including Al Franken, Tom Davis, Greg Daniels, Jim Downey, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, and George Meyer, contributing. The screenplay only got as far as a Revised First Draft ...
Rotten Tomatoes score: 11% "A Night at the Roxbury" is based on "The Roxbury Guys" sketches, which starred Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell as two oblivious club rats with a talent for jerking their ...
Saturday Night Fever earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, [22] making him, at age 24, one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. [23] His mother and his sister Ann appeared very briefly in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen played a waitress in Grease.
Donna Pescow is looking back on her star-making turn in Saturday Night Fever, the iconic 1977 film that also helped catapult John Travolta to the A-List. “I was overwhelmed, I think, a lot of ...
My high school friends and I played in a band at the club that featured that disco icon. It's up for auction now and still lights up. My friends and I are still jamming too.
Some film critics referred to the movie as a country music version of Saturday Night Fever. The film grossed almost $47 million in the United States alone and represented a temporary recovery for Travolta from 1978's poorly received Moment by Moment , but the film was not nearly as successful as either Saturday Night Fever ($94 million) or ...