This Year Marks 40 Years Since This Movie Came Out.
Rest In Peace Chris Penn 😢

I lost my oldest son at age 21. He was in a car wreck and he died from a blood clot 6 weeks after the wreck. So many would have, could have, should have things that go through your mind but, you can’t change the outcome. I hope no one ever feels the way I have to feel when I lost him. It’s taken 6 years of grief therapy just to type or say these words without breaking down all over again. There needs to be communication, patience, and forgiveness to move forward. It’s not something someone just gets over. It changes you. One reason I watch you two do these movie reactions is because you both remind me of the relationship my two boys had with each other. I laugh at how ridiculous you guys react to things, how you discuss and work things out while watching these old movies I grew up on. Thanks for sharing guys.

The actor who played Willard was Chris Penn, one of Sean Penn's brothers. Chris Penn passed away several years ago. Kevin Bacon  returned to the high school where the exterior scenes were filmed for the high school's final prom a few months ago. The school was scheduled to be demolished.

I'm so glad you guys appreciate John Lithgow as an actor. He is phenomenal in everything he's worked in.❤

"Dude she's terrifying" 😂💀

Fun fact: Kevin Bacon pays wedding DJs to not play the song. 😆

This movie is how every dance dance revolution player feels on the dime.

This is the fastest i have ever clicked on an Octokrool reaction. One of my all time favorite movies ❤

My favorite quote when  when people want to practice censorship, or ban books, or dancing, I’m like come on Folks, didn’t we learn anything from Footloose:)

"You should be like me. Whenever I get angry, I do some footloose dancing." -Family Guy

The studio made a genius move with this film - they released the soundtrack album a few months before the film came out.  It was the first time that move was ever tried, and it worked.  A number of the songs on the album were written for the film, and they hit really big on the radio.  With all that airplay, the audience was primed to the top for the movie, and when it opened, it became a phenomenon.  It played for months, a huge hit.  (By the way, the idea for this script came from a newspaper article about this very situation, a dance put on by the kids in a Midwest town where dancing was forbidden.)

People like that don't read the books they just judge them by the titles, or by the covers.

In the 60's-early 80's, a lot of the older generations still hadn't really absorbed all of the changes society had gone through for 20+years, and that's what the preacher represents. Into the early 80's, you still had older folks trying to ban dancing and burning rock records, particularly in the smaller towns of the South and Midwest. It seems almost comical to modern audiences that just dancing would seem rebellious, but the movie's plot isn't that farfetched.

Fun Fact: As struggling actors, Kevin Bacon, John Travolta and Val Kilmer shared an apartment in NYC 🗽 and got background parts in stage musicals. As they all became famous, fans were amazed at their singing & dancing in movies like this one, Saturday Night Fever, and Top Secret. Few realized they were all song & dance guys from the start! 😊

You guys would absolutely  love  John Lithgow in the tv series Third  Rock from the Sun. It's hilarious.

The 2011 remake is much darker and grittier in terms of how the story is told, while it still revolves around grief and the repercussions that came afterwards, It goes the extra mile with such raw emtion to what these characters were going through.

My mom grew up in a town where public dancing was not allowed.  In our county, there is a church affiliated university and a seminary.  When students sign on to go to school there, they still must sign a contract that they will not dance in public.  That rule was put in place in the 1930s, because of one or two big donors with very small minds.  Of course, in the 1930s in the Bible Belt, the only places for public dancing were honkey tonks, juke joints, bars and speak easies.

I always find it extremely funny that a town the dancing and music isn't aloud how great everyone at the end of the movie dances 😂😂

Fun fact:  Lori Singer (Ariel; the crazy chick) is Marc Singer's sister.  You know...THE BEASTMASTER!!!

37:36 "This party sucks !"  omg that inflection 🤣