Saturday Night Fever

Based On “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”

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 who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local disco while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 New York article by music writer Nik Cohn. A major critical and commercial success, Saturday Night Fever had a tremendous impact on the popular culture of the late 1970s.

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Release date:

December 16, 1977

Director:

John Badham

Cast:

John Travolta, Fran Drescher, Barry Miller, Julie Bovasso, Karen Lynn Gorney

Genre:

Drama, Music-themed

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1977 in adaptations