Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discotheque; Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Annette, Tony’s former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free youth and weekend dancing 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 macho friends.
A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, already well known from his role on TV’s Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time.
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La febbre del sabato sera (Saturday Night Fever) è un film musicale del 1977 diretto dal regista John Badham, ed interpretato da John Travolta e Karen Lynn Gorney.
Si tratta di uno dei film più celebri ed importanti nella storia del cinema. La pellicola, grazie alla quale John Travolta ottenne la sua definitiva consacrazione, viene concepita come un vero e proprio omaggio alla disco music e al glam dominante negli anni settanta. Le musiche vengono arricchite dai successi musicali in voga all’epoca, tra cui spiccano le canzoni originali dei Bee Gees (soprattutto il brano Stayin’ Alive), che con la pellicola ritrovano una nuova stagione di gloria.
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