Staying Alive (1983)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Sylvester Stallone

Writers:

Nik Cohn (characters)
Sylvester Stallone (written by) ...

Release Date:

15 July 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Tagline:

Tony Manero knows the old days are over - But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again.

Plot:

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Plot Keywords:

Dancer | Sequel | Writer Director | Title Based On Song | Spandex

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 5 nominations

Cast

John Travolta	...	Tony Manero
Cynthia Rhodes	...	Jackie
Finola Hughes	...	Laura
Steve Inwood	...	Jesse
Julie Bovasso	...	Mrs. Manero
Charles Ward	...	Butler
Steve Bickford	...	Sound Technician
Patrick Brady	...	Derelict
Norma Donaldson	...	Fatima
Jesse Doran	...	Mark
Joyce Hyser	...	Linda
Deborah Jenssen	...	Margaret
Robert Martini	...	Fred
Sarah M. Miles	...	Joy (as Sarah Miles)
Tony Munafo	...	Doorman

Runtime:

93 min | Argentina:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Spain:T | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | Sweden:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

A scene between Tony Manero and his dad was cut from the film. Karen Lynn Gorney was going to play the same role she played in the original, but those plans were cancelled.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Camera crew visible in mirrors during rehearsal segment.

Quotes:

Jackie: You know a woman's career as a dancer is half as long as a man's? So that means I have half as many chances of making it, right?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: I'm Goin' to Praiseland (#12.19)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Hope We Never Change

an interior fight metaphor

This movie means to represent the fight between love and passion and it make that with the love story of Tony and Jackie and his involving with Laura. At the end the chief character will make a not simple choice giving importance to the person who love him really understanding he loves too. The dance show is a beauty synthesis of this match, like beauty the musics are, above all, in my opinion, that one in whom there are much light effects during the ""journey through the hell" scene: it is astonishing but I don't know who the composer is!!! Good interpretation of the actors although perhaps the movie is too shorter than it must be to analyze better the individual characters. Cynthia Rhodes is a good interpreter of her role like also Finola Hughes able to playing an intriguing charming woman. Behind the Hell there is the light and so the movie ends.