Saturday Night Fever
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 story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn.
Plot
Tony Manero is a 19-year-old Italian-American from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, living in his family's house and working in a paint store. He escapes his day-to-day life by dancing at 2001 Odyssey, a local discotheque, where he receives the admiration he craves as king of the dance floor.
Awards
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| author | Nik Cohn Norman Wexler |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Brooklyn |
| director | John Badham |
| editor | David Rawlins |
| genre | drama social |
| keywords | black sheep broken promise catholic priest climb discotheque discover disillusion dispensation end fight italian-american italian americans manhattan married morning new life nightclub older brother past relationship plan pope pregnant girl puerto rican rid run away verrazzano-narrows bridge |
| musicBy | Barry Gibb |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor |
| producer | Robert Stigwood |
| productionCompany | Robert Stigwood Organization |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | New York City |
| theme | dance |