This article is about the film. For the stage musical, see Saturday Night Fever (musical). For the soundtrack album, see Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack).
Saturday Night Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
John Badham
Screenplay by
Norman Wexler
Based on
"Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" by Nik Cohn
Produced by
Robert Stigwood
Starring
John Travolta
Karen Gorney
Cinematography
Ralf D. Bode
Edited by
David Rawlins
Music by
Bee Gees
David Shire
Production company
Robert Stigwood Organization[1]
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
December 16, 1977 (1977-12-16) ([1][2])
Running time
119 minutes[3]
Country
United States[1]
Language
English
Budget
$3.5 million[4]
Box office
$237.1 million[5]
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 discothèque 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 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. It helped popularize disco around the world and initiated a series of collaborations between film studios and record labels. It made Travolta, already well known from his role in the popular TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, at the time becoming the fourth-youngest nominee in the category. The film showcases aspects of the music, dancing, and subculture surrounding the disco era, including symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute couture styles of clothing, pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide. Travolta reprised his role of Tony Manero in Staying Alive in 1983, which was panned by critics despite being successful at the box office.
In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
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^"Saturday Night Fever (1977)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
^Loftis, Ryan (December 12, 2012), Saturday Night Fever Turns 35. Suite101. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
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