{"id":43136,"date":"2026-10-31T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43136"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:40:12","slug":"43136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43136","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Footloose&#8221; (1984) starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Penn \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z103126review_footloose.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"784\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Footloose <\/i>(1984)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Herbert Ross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Dean Pitchford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker <\/strong>and<strong> Chris Penn<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>He&#8217;s a big-city kid in a small town. They said he&#8217;d never win. He knew he had to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ren and his mother moved from Chicago to the small town of Bomont, Utah.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a huge change for Ren, a high school senior, but he&#8217;s trying to adapt.\u00a0 Ren has made a few friends. Willard, a real country boy, is his closest buddy.\u00a0 Ariel, a girl Ren&#8217;s attracted to, likes him as well.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Ren has made a few enemies. Reverand Moore, Ariel&#8217;s father, sees Ren as a bad influence.\u00a0 Ariel&#8217;s older ex-boyfriend, Chuck Cranston is looking for a chance to get a couple of friends and beat-up Ren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Ren learns there is a city ordinance that bans dancing, he makes it his mission to get an exception for the Senior Prom.\u00a0 This only makes Reverand Moore dislike him more (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ren&#8217;s not a quiter.\u00a0 The odds are against him.\u00a0 But like Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, the kid&#8217;s <em>gotta dance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Footloose<\/em> was nominated for two 1985 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominee for B<em>est Music, Original Song<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Kenny Loggins<\/strong> (music) &amp; <strong>Dean Pitchford<\/strong> (lyrics) for the song <em>&#8220;Footloose&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominee for <em>Best Music, Original Song<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Tom Snow<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Dean Pitchford<\/strong> for the song <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Hear It for the Boy&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the opening credits over 150 different pairs of dancing feet were shot.\u00a0 Most were cast and crew.\u00a0 Kenny Loggins wore the gold shoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While it is true that Chris Penn was not a good dancer (one of the reasons that led to the scenes of Kevin Bacon teaching him how to move), Kevin Bacon also had five different doubles for all of his dance scenes. One of Bacon&#8217;s dance doubles was Peter Tramm who was at the time married to Marine Jahan. Jahan was the uncredited dance double for Jennifer Beals in <em>Flashdance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow played Lori Singer&#8217;s parents.\u00a0 Wiest is just 9 years older than Singer.\u00a0 Lithgow just twelve.<\/p>\n<p>Frances Lee McCain played Ren&#8217;s mother.\u00a0 She is only twelve years older than Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Footloose<\/em> is a fun little movie full of cliches, dancing and music.\u00a0 If you go with it, you should have a fun time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Footloose <\/i>(1984)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z103126review_footloose2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footloose (1984) Director: Herbert Ross Screenplay: \u00a0Dean Pitchford Stars:\u00a0 Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,64,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43240,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43136\/revisions\/43240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}