Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21536 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2002-10-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

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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

Customer Reviews

Just as Promised
The product came as advertised, sooner than expected and is awesome! A blast from the not so distant past

the 1970's disco era
one of my favorites. great movie & music. missing a lot of features. the features shown are good. j. travolta is not seen in interviews. still missing a lot of deleted scenes. my VHS copy taken off from TV have lots of important scenes. i hope they'll release another special edition featuring more material. an enjoyable movie & love it. ****

Enjoyable but not great
Travolta is a great actor, no dout and his acting is the best part of the movie. He absorbs the role perfectly.

I enjoyed Staying Alive more.

Seeing the cultural decadance of the era in both movies is not fun but both were enjoyable.