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ok I must have been abducted by aliens when this one came out some 20 years ago. because I never saw it until I caught a scene a short while ago.

but ummm...from what I understand this movie was a major hit???

I just saw a scene where they're at a drive-in restaurant and a song comes on the radio that had a Debarge kind of beat to it w/Howard Hewitt singing. and low and behold, the KIDS start dancing. which was forbidden.

not fucking, not drugs, not cussing, not gang banging, but dancing. and not dancing w/black people, which weren't around when the music and dancing broke out. and some of those dance moves looked...umm...a little light in the ass. (I think I saw Al Reynolds waving happily during one scene. )

and as much as I love these artists, how much trouble can you get into dancing to Kenny Loggins or a Howard Hewitt dance song???

[/i]OMG...a tractor/plow race, YES, THAT'S WHAT I SAID, w/the song I Need A Hero playing in the background. and the plow didn't fall on nobody followed by a rescue. man, how did this movie not get my money at the theaters back in the day? [/i]

wait...hold the phone, the additional cast talent included Diane Weist, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christopher Penn

tamra,
Yes looking back on it the plot does seem very far fetched.... but they do a good job of making real...by the end you will believe!! It could be deemed a movie you would watch over and over along the lines of Shawshank. I would say this movie made Kevin Bacon a "name"!!

bingolong,

the mystery is how did I not see it before today given the list of stars in it. it must have been a movie packed year at the theaters.

but interesting seeing Kevin Bacon working out the dance moves in ball-clutching-jeans and thinking of him in Murder In The First and other serious movies such as Sleepers.

tamra,
....yeah I didn't want to call you out on your 22 years of missing "Footloose"....like I said it really is a classic!!!:lol:

At first I though you were going to say they are going to remake it when I first saw the topic!!:lol:


By the way that was actually a Shalmar song with Howard Hewett...I believe post Jody Whatley!

bingolong,

Oh yeah, they are doing a remake of Footloose, starring Paul McCartney's ex-wife and Leuitenant Dan... :p

Anditsdeeptoo,
Oh man that is so fucked up....but I guess appropriate!!!!

bingolong,

Corny is my middle name. I remember when the movie came out I was like 3 years old and that Kenny Loggins song was my jam. I was doing the Carlton Dance all day.

Anditsdeeptoo,

ok you gotta give me a chance to catch my breath from your last Eddie Murphy funny. and now that remake shit was hilarious.
hey I love the live zydeco version of Footloose from Live From The Redwoods. and guess what's on radio now: Celebrate Me Home.

Kenny Loggins is jamming. you're corny for other reasons j/k

and look at Bingo knowing the music trivia from Footloose. 22 years ago?? man, that must have been my trip around the world....w/acid year j/k just don't remember it when it was released.

we'll, the good news is I know I'm not the only one who didn't see it. *whew*

tamra,
Actually I just read it off of the liner notes of the best of Shalamar Volume 2 a few months ago....

bingolong,

cheater I bet you never saw Footloose either. uhmmmm hmm, I knew I wasn't the only one ;p