Footloose
PG

Footloose

The music is on his side.

1984 • 107 min • Drama · Romance

Our family guide

Best from age 12
84
Movie Knight Score
2242 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 67 Audience · 2239 · 47%

Ren, kijana kutoka jiji, anapohamia mji mdogo ambako kucheza na muziki wa rock ni marufuku, anawakusanya marafiki zake wapya ili kupinga sheria kali. Drama hii ya kusisimua inachunguza mada za uasi, jamii, na uhuru wa kibinafsi huku Ren akipigania haki ya kucheza.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
3/10
Romance & sensuality
2/10
Scary moments
1/10

Heads up

  • Baadhi ya mabishano na migogoro kati ya vijana na watu wazima.
  • Wahusika wanakunywa pombe na kuvuta sigara.
  • Tabia za uasi, ikiwemo kuvunja sheria.
  • Maudhui mafupi, yasiyo ya wazi ya kupendekeza.

What it models well

  • Kupigania kile unachokiamini
  • Nguvu ya muziki na densi
  • Kuziba pengo la vizazi
  • Jumuiya na urafiki

Talk about it after

  • Unadhani kwa nini wazee wa mji waliogopa sana kucheza?
  • Vijana wanawezaje kufikisha sauti zao kwa heshima?
  • Ni majukumu gani yanakuja na uhuru?
  • Jadili jinsi watu tofauti wanavyokabiliana na huzuni na majonzi.

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Top billed cast

Director: Herbert Ross • Crew: Dean Pitchford

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Reviewer notes

Recommended

"Ren" (Kevin Bacon) moves from the big city to a small town run by the rather puritanical preacher "Moore" (John Lithgow) only to find that dancing, singing - indeed just about every form of entertainment has been banished. He claims that is to protect them and their children from ungodly corrupting influences.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

It's still one of my favorites and I could hardly walk when it first came out. And now it's legend, so writing a real review is almost needless. Just about everyone has seen it. It's still regarded as a classic. So I suppose the best thing to say is that it's like the Karate Kid...only with dancing rather than martial arts. Single mother and son move into a new town.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

"A time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4 RELEASED IN 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” chronicles events in the small Western town of Bomont where dancing and loud music have been outlawed because of an accident that killed some kids years earlier.…

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Details

TMDB audience
6.7/10 (2,239)
Age rating
PG
Status
Released
Budget
$8,200,000
Box office
$80,035,402

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