Saturday Night Fever (1977)
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discothèque. While in the disco, Tony is the king, and the visits help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of dead-beat friends.

A huge commercial success, the movie significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, became the best selling soundtrack ever.

The film also showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography.

The story is based upon a 1976 New York magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night." In the late-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that the article had been fabricated[1]. A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about. The characters who were to become Tony Manero and his friends sprang almost completely from his imagination.

The film is also notable for being one of the first instances of cross-media marketing, with the tie-in soundtrack's single being used to help promote the film before its release and the film popularizing the entire soundtrack after its release.

Directed by John Badham 
Produced by Robert Stigwood 
Written by Nik Cohn (magazine article)
Norman Wexler 
Starring John Travolta
Karen Lynn Gorney 
Music by Barry Gibb
Maurice Gibb
Robin Gibb
David Shire 

Release date(s) December 14, 1977
Running time 119 min

Length.......................: 119 min
Resolution...................: 640 x 368
Codec........................: XviD, 2 Pass mode
Bitrate......................: Avg. 1390 kBit/s
Format.......................: MP3
Bitrate......................: 320 kBit/s


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