From John Travolta’s electrifying Oscar®-nominated* performance to the Bee Gees’ top 10 soundtrack to the unforgettable dancing, Saturday Night Feveris a movie sensation that captured the world’s attention like never before. Now catch the fever all over again with this 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition that goes behind-the-scenes with special features on the history, culture and fashion of disco, the smash-hit soundtrack, an exclusive look at Hollywood legend John Travolta, and so much more. Now more than ever before, Saturday Night Fever is the one film that’ll make you feel like dancing.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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March 22, 2008
#1
this fiml woz VERRY disapointing its verry dated and the end is so rubish!
March 22, 2008
#2
This is one of the worst film’s to come out of that era. This film treats women like objects and not human beings with feelings and emotions. The film’s only point of view is from the perspective of John Travolta and if he can win the prize. And what is the prize? Not clear! That does not say much for the spirit of man.
March 22, 2008
#3
Good music, good dancing, but in today’s standards this movie would be boring. I tried watching it and I thought it was slow and boring! I suppose that back it the 70′s it wasn’t boring.
March 22, 2008
#4
I’m going against the grain on this one. I hated it. Sure, the music is great, but the characters are truly some of the worst people I’ve ever seen.
John Travolta plays a spineless wuss who lives at home then struts about on the disco floor like a girl. But, it’s the girls he’s after, and he lays them, and leaves them like he’s making a deposit in a human sperm-bank.
His wish to attach himself to another human being is parallel to the lack of actual physical contact on the dancefloor.
His friends are a bunch of jerks, one of whom tries to prove his manhood by falling off a bridge.
But, all this garbage is set to a great soundtrack!
March 22, 2008
#5
There is something gruesome about “Saturday Night Fever,” something unexpected and raw which, quite frankly, still plays on one’s nerves so many years later. To say that the movie is without value is taking it a bit far, but one is troubled to find room for sincere praise. Apart from the ugliness it portrays, apart from the disdain, to some extent, that continued to be shown to women in the 1970s, the film has a hidden cultural reality which you almost have to make excuses for. It is as if the film itself never found the right voice.
Perhaps as a caricature of the times, the “fever” of an age rolling out of the rock of the 50s and 60s does affect us moderately, but this is no medium lightweight in terms of scenario and dialogue. No apology is being made here. Minorities, as much as women, have their backs to the wall, and we are left wondering if director John Badham intended us to see more, or feel more, as though we could just as well watch the film with our eyes closed. So while it is hard to recommend the film, it’s also impossible to discount it completely. Just be aware that it is unlikely to become a “family favourite.”