When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Acting
John Lithgow makes a foot-stomping preacher genuinely heartbreaking.
Score
Kenny Loggins basically IS the main character.
Director
Herbert Ross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kevin Bacon paid for his own dance double's scenes to be cut so he could do the warehouse sequence himself. He also used so much anger that he injured himself kicking the beam.
Based loosely on real events in Elmore City, Oklahoma, which banned dancing until 1980. The actual town vote was way less dramatic—no angry warehouse dancing required.
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