Film critic Pauline Kael wrote a gushing review of the film in The New Yorker: "The way Saturday Night Fever has been directed and shot, we feel the languorous pull of the discotheque, and the gaudiness is transformed. These are among the most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed ... Travolta gets so far inside the role he seems incapable of a false note; even the Brooklyn accent sounds unerring ... At its best, though, Saturday Night Fever gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary." [46] [47] Both theatrical versions were released on VHS. The PG-rated version never had a home video release on Laserdisc. It was first released to DVD by Paramount on October 8, 2002, as an R-rated special-edition, which included most of the deleted scenes present on the PG version, as well as a director's commentary and "Behind the Music" featurettes. [31] Ramsey, James (December 14, 2017). "Wednesday Night Fever: The One-Night Return of the 2001 Odyssey Disco". WNYC . Retrieved September 26, 2023. Tony and his friends ritually stop on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to clown around. The bridge has special significance for Tony as a symbol of escape to a better life.

Saturday Night Fever: 25th Anniversary Edition Paramount Home Video Starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney Written by Norman Wexler The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". The New York Times. April 29, 2003. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 . Retrieved May 23, 2010. Donna Pescow was considered almost "too pretty" by Paramount heads Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg for the role of Annette. She corrected this matter by putting on weight. She also had to relearn her native Brooklyn accent, which she had overcome while studying drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. [19] Filming [ edit ] The album, like its parent film, has been added to the Library of Congress via the National Recording Registry. [12] Source material [ edit ] Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.Gold & Platinum – November 30, 2009". RIAA. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010 . Retrieved November 30, 2009. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Saturday Night Fever is a fantastic movie. It was originally released in 1977 and is well known as one of John Travolta's early successes. He plays the character Tony Manero (Travolta), an insecure young man hiding behind his good looks and reputation with his friends. He works hard during the week to have enough money for fancy outfits and to spend weekends at his favourite dance club. After meeting Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), Tony starts to question his life and if there is more for him out there. The film was directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. Saturday Night Fever version comparison (theatrical and director's cut)". movie-censorship.com . Retrieved September 18, 2023. 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.

In 2017, the director's cut (running 122 minutes) premiered at the TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. [29] Fathom Events hosted special screenings of this version in 2017. [30] Home media [ edit ] Warner, Kara (April 4, 2018). " 'Ready Player One' 's Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke Spent 3 Weeks Learning That Disco Dance Number". People . Retrieved September 18, 2023.

Karen Lynn Gorney was nine years older than Travolta when she was cast as his love interest Stephanie. Although Gorney had dance experience before she was cast, she found it difficult to keep up with her co-star due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident some years before. [15] After the success of Saturday Night Fever, Gorney took a break from film acting to work as a dance instructor at a performing arts academy in Brooklyn. Jessica Lange, Kathleen Quinlan, Carrie Fisher, and Amy Irving were all considered for the part before Gorney was cast. In 2008, director Pablo Larraín made a film, Tony Manero, about a Chilean dancer obsessed by the main character in Saturday Night Fever who tries to win a Tony Manero look-alike contest. [66]

Rohter, Larry (July 2, 2009). "The Dictator and the Disco King". The New York Times . Retrieved February 5, 2017.I am 31 so I was 3 when this movie came out. The first time I saw Saturday Night Fever was the "Edited For Television" version probably when I was 6 or 7 years old. At that point, it was about the music, the dance scenes and the clothes. You get both the 4K version and the blu-ray which pretty standard these days. I’ve listed all of the extras included below. Whitburn, Joel (2014). Cash Box Looking Ahead Pop Hits 101-150. Sheridan Books, Inc. p.149. ISBN 978-0-89820-211-3. Terrence, Sir (May 8, 2009). "Saturday Night Fever Blu-ray Review". Blu-ray.com . Retrieved November 25, 2013.

Di Nunzio, Miriam (April 28, 2017). "Director: 'Saturday Night Fever' stayin' relevant after 40 years". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved September 18, 2023. Tony works a dead-end job at a hardware store and hangs out with his gang of friends in his off time. He lives at home with his italian family (father, mother, sister, and grandmother), but really lives at the disco he and his friends go to every Saturday night. While at the disco one night he spots a new girl, Stephanie (played by Karen Lynn Gorney), and he engineers a meeting. The two of them agree to partner for an upcoming dance contest, and, throughout the course of their practicing, a mutual affection develops. In Tony, Stephanie finds a person she can at last trust, and in Stephanie, Tony finds someone who not only has dancing talents on a par with his own, but, in her, he also sees a doorway of sorts out of the world he is increasingly coming to detest. The ending of "Saturday Night Fever" is tender and delicate. The movie itself is a roller coaster ride of arguing, violence, and indecency, but the ending is soft and sweet. Bay Ridge Still Has Saturday Night Fever, 35 Years Later". brooklynbased.com. December 14, 2012 . Retrieved March 31, 2021. The 2018 film Ready Player One features a dance scene that references Saturday Night Fever, particularly the red, yellow, and blue dance floor from the 2001 Odyssey night club in the film. [70] This "30th anniversary special collector's edition" is, incredibly, only the second DVD release of Saturday Night Fever, following a 2002 release that marked the film's 25th anniversary. Die-hard fans will want to hang onto the previous disc, since a trio of deleted scenes and a VH-1 special are missing from this release. I'll detail the differences further below. The DVDKarlin, Katherine (June 12, 2019). "What We Don't Remember About Saturday Night Fever". Bright Wall/Dark Room . Retrieved March 16, 2021.