A Classic

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2005)

This is the ultimate gang movie taken to a new height, that being a dance club or discoteque as the clubs were called in the 70's and 80's. John Travolta was a young actor with a lot of energy, gives a performance of high caliber as as likable street tough (Tony Manero) who works in a paint store by day and goes with his buddies to the 2001 Oddessy club in Brooklyn at night where he transforms into the ultimate club dancer.
One night he meets Stephanie, an older woman who tries to make Tony "grow up" and train to compete with her in an upcoming dance contest. Along the way Tony has to deal with his deadbeat father, his mother who only loves his priest brother, his brother who needs to quit the priesthood and find himself, Annette who is Tony's ultimate "groupie," and Tony's friends who seem to be getting into scrapes with a rival gang.
The movie is full of memorable lines and the clothes that Tony wore, especially the white suit, caused a fashion revolution.
Probably the be movie for getting a feel for life in the late 70's.