Story Line
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
“The music is on his side.”
Top Cast
Kevin Bacon
Ren
Lori Singer
Ariel
John Lithgow
Rev. Shaw Moore
Dianne Wiest
Vi Moore
Chris Penn
Willard
Sarah Jessica Parker
Rusty
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
1984-02-17
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
DramaRomance
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User Reviews (3)
Wuchak
9/10
•7/27/2018"A time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4
RELEASED IN 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” chronicles events in the small Western town of Bomont where dancing and loud music have been outlawed because of an accident that ...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/14/2023It's still one of my favorites and I could hardly walk when it first came out.
And now it's legend, so writing a real review is almost needless. Just about everyone has seen it. It's still regarded as a classic.
So I suppose the best thing to s...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•4/11/2024"Ren" (Kevin Bacon) moves from the big city to a small town run by the rather puritanical preacher "Moore" (John Lithgow) only to find that dancing, singing - indeed just about every form of entertainment has been banished. He claims that is to prote...