Footloose

Every been to a place where you can not dance do to it being considered immoral? Well that makes sense in churches and religious places, but what about whole towns and communities.  That's crazy but it exists and has exist in different places over the past 100 years.  In the movie Footloose (both versions), this whole dance ban idea was explored.

The film is about big city boy, Ren McCormick who moves to small town Bomont where public dancing and rock n roll is band from the town.  He meets the Reverend's daughter Ariel who is a real wild child unbeknownst to her father.  They like each other but Ariel's boyfriend is trying to hinder the friendship.  During this however Ren is trying to figure out why dancing is so wrong and how to change it.  With help from his new friend Willard, Ariel and other Bomont students, they take on the city council and the parents of Bomont.

Both films are written by Dean Pitchford and contain a wonderful score of original songs.  Some recordings from the original film were re-used in the remake and some re-recorded.  Both movie contained great songs but if you like 80's sounding music I recommend watching the original and if you like country and hip-hop I recommend watching the remake.

I suggest watching both versions back-to-back.