Cinema: Revel Without a Cause

FOOTLOOSE Directed by Herbert Ross; Screenplay by Dean Pitchford

The Footloose audience settles into its seats only to find it cannot sit down; the opening music and images just will not allow it. Here are a couple of dozen happy dancing feet moving irresistibly to a pounding Kenny Loggins raver that finds its inspiration in every let's-rock anthem from Rebel Rouser to Devil with the Blue Dress On. "You can fly if you'll only cut loose,/ Footloose,/ Kick off your Sunday shoes." Any viewer with a pulse rate above 25 will be bound to do...

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