

Footloose
The music is on his side.
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
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6.7/10
2,306 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8.2M
- Box office
- $80M
- Language
- English
- dancing
- dance
- dancer
- dance teacher
- father daughter relationship
- amused
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG17 Feb 1984
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1513 Apr 1984
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM12 Apr 1984
CanadaCA
- Physical14A17 Feb 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1213 Jul 1984
Dominican RepublicDO
- Theatrical (limited)7 Jul 2025
FinlandFI
- PhysicalK-1217 Feb 1984
FranceFR
- Theatrical9 May 1984
- PhysicalDVD10 Oct 2002
- PhysicalBlu-ray25 Jan 2012
- Digital / OTT31 Oct 2012
- Digital / OTT10Prime Video1 Feb 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1218 May 1984
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A27 Apr 1984
JapanJP
- TheatricalG14 Jul 1984
RomaniaRO
- Theatrical1517 Feb 1984
Frequently asked questions
Footloose was released on 17 February 1984.
Audience reviews
3- W9/10
Wuchak
7/27/2018
"A time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4 RELEASED IN 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” chronicles events in the small Western town of Bomont where dancing and loud music have been outlawed because of an accident that killed some kids years earlier. Preacher’s daughter Ariel (Lori Singer) rebels against the legalistic measures while taking liking to a new student from Chicago, Ren (Kev…
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/14/2023
It's still one of my favorites and I could hardly walk when it first came out. And now it's legend, so writing a real review is almost needless. Just about everyone has seen it. It's still regarded as a classic. So I suppose the best thing to say is that it's like the Karate Kid...only with dancing rather than martial arts. Single mother and son move into a new town. Son is an outsider that gets in trouble w…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
4/11/2024
"Ren" (Kevin Bacon) moves from the big city to a small town run by the rather puritanical preacher "Moore" (John Lithgow) only to find that dancing, singing - indeed just about every form of entertainment has been banished. He claims that is to protect them and their children from ungodly corrupting influences. The new boy is treated with enough circumspection before "Ariel" (Lori Singer) takes a shine to him, but on…
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