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Footloose
Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

In this lively adolescent-oriented musical, a city kid attempts to adapt to life in an ultra-conservative backwater Midwestern town. Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town fathers, who have outlawed rock & roll and dancing.

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 Is related to:    Saturday Night Fever  (1977, John Badham)
   Kick  (1999, Lynda Heys)
   Center Stage  (2000, Nicholas Hytner)
   Totally Awesome  (2006, Neal Brennan)
   Dance with Me  (1998, Randa Haines)
 Has been remade as:    Footloose