2011 · drama · music · romance
Footloose
Directed by Craig Brewer1h 53m2011
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
Our read: Footloose (2011) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · music · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
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How Footloose feels to watch.
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“You want fizzy dance-romance energy with a small-town rebellion hook.”
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