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, New York. He lives with his parents, grandmother, and younger sister, and works at a dead-end job in a small paint store. To escape his day-to-day life, Tony goes to 2001 Odyssey, a local discotheque, where he is king of the dance floor and receives the admiration and respect he craves. Tony has four close Italian-American friends from the neighborhood: Joey, Double J, Gus, and Bobby C. A fringe member of his group of friends is Annette, a neighborhood girl who is infatuated with Tony; however, he is not attracted to her.
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 | act attack bad behavior bay ridge better life black sheep broken promise catholic priest dance competition dead-end job discotheque disillusion dispensation end gang member grocery store group of friends italian-american manhattan morning new life older brother paint store papal dispensation pope puerto rican rid roman catholic than the three guys verrazzano-narrows bridge want win |
| 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 |