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 from Brooklyn who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and general restlessness and disillusionment with his life, and feeling directionless and trapped in his working-class neighborhood. The story is based upon "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", an article by music writer Nik Cohn, first published in a June 1976 issue of New York magazine. The film features music by Bee Gees and many other prominent artists of the disco era. Saturday Night Fever was a huge commercial success and had a tremendous effect on popular culture of the late 1970s. The film helped significantly to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, who was already well known from his role on TV's Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name.
| Director | John Badham |
| Produced by | Robert Stigwood |
| Screenplay by | Norman Wexler |
| Starring | John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney |
| Music | Bee Gees, David Shire |
| Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
| Edited by | David Rawlins |
| Production, company | Robert Stigwood Organization |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Released | December 14, 1977 |
| Running time | 119 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million |
| Box office | $237.1 million |
| Netflix ID | 60010860 |
About Saturday Night Fever
Tony Manero has a bland life during the weekdays but on the weekends, the Brooklyn teenager lives on the dance floor and falls in love with his dance partner.
Achievement of Saturday Night Fever
The film grossed over $237 million worldwide. John Travolta was nominated for an Academy Award for his role.
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Latest information about Saturday Night Fever updated on July 28 2021.
