Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever (1977) starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney. The movie that ignited the disco craze and made Travolta a star. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a 19-year-old in a dead-end job whose self-worth is tied up in his weekly performances on the dance floor of a local disco club. He teams up with Stephanie (Gorney) to compete in a dance contest at the club that boasts a $500 prize for the first-place finisher. But there's more to this film than dancing; there's a lot of drama about Tony's family and about the small gang that he hangs out with. It's really a pretty entertaining movie, now that disco is just a distant memory. (Subtitles in English are offered, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B