when did the movie footloose come out
Still, a remake of Footloose is hitting theaters this weekend and the very idea of it has many children of the `80s appalled. The mentality is: You don't touch any John Hughes movies, or Better Off Dead, and you really don't touch Footloose.. Director Craig Brewer gets it. He was 12 years old when the original Footloose came out in 1984, and it's the movie that inspired him to become a filmmaker himself. He loved it so much, he's said, he didn't want anyone else to remake it.