Staying Alive

1983 "Tony Manero knows the old days are over. But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again."
4.8| 1h33m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 11 July 1983 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
jtashar-02200 One of my all time favourites. I have watched it many times now It just gets better with every viewing. I can so see myself in John Travolta and his challenges with women, life and his career challenges. Totally a must see. Love it!!
marieltrokan The inability to be beaten, is the ability to beat. Beating is winning. Winning is gaining. Gaining is evolution.The ability of evolution is the inability of no evolution. The inability of no evolution is the inability of no change. The inability of no change is the inability of sameness.Sameness is reality.The inability of reality is the ability of no reality.No reality is absence. The ability of absence is the power of absence.The power of absence isn't power, or absence. The power of absence is the weakness of presence.A weak presence is a weak style. A weak style is a strong lack of style.A lack of style is freedom. A strong freedom is a strong eternity. A strong eternity is a weak time.Time is history.A weak history is a strong lack of history.The lack of history is the lack of perspective. The lack of perspective is the lack of judgement. A strong lack of judgement is a strong lack of criticism.The lack of criticism is the ability to help.The ability to help is not help, and is not an ability. The ability to help is the inability to undermine.The inability to undermine is the inability to hurt.A strong inability to hurt is a weak ability to help.The ability to help is the absence of help. The absence of help is the help of absence.A weak help of absence is a strong hurt of presence.A strong hurt is a strong weakness. A strong weakness is an insincere weakness.An insincere weakness is a sincere strength.Staying Alive is a very special work of art, because it's a story about the presence of living forces being a sincere power
SnoopyStyle After 'Saturday Night Fever', Tony Manero (John Travolta) is in Manhattan failing to make it on Broadway. He scrapes by as a dance instructor and as a waiter. His supportive girlfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes) works as an exercise instructor and as a back-up dancer in a Broadway extravaganza starring Laura (Finola Hughes). His flirtations gets him into Laura's bed but she drops him after the one time. Both Jackie and Tony get chorus dancer roles in Laura's next big role. He's still possessive of Jackie who finally has had enough of him. He walks home to visit his mother and has some personal growth.I remember liking this spandex cheestastic affair back when I was a kid. I didn't love it but the acting is so big and they seem to come out of the Solid Gold Dancers. The flaws become obvious pretty quickly as one grows up. Sylvester Stallone does his favorite story once again with the underdog making it to the top. The movie is betrayed by its vision of Broadway. It is all flash and no substance. It doesn't help that it's terribly dated. Although even back then, it is overwrought without real drama. I think Stallone tried to transfer Rocky to Tony and failed to get his character.
juneebuggy Wow did I really just see that? I felt like I was watching soft gay porn here especially during the end dance sequences where John Travolta gives his sweaty all in a weird loin cloth thingy. I saw way more of his (albeit well toned) body than I wanted to.This follows Tony Manero (of Saturday Night Fever fame) to Broadway where his ego thinks because he was such a smash in the disco's of Brooklyn that he's going to make it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. What follows is hard work, mean choreographers, tough times and a romance with Finola Hughes.For some weird reason Sylvester Stallone wrote and directed this. He is also responsible for Travolta's zero percent body fat dancers physique and makes a cameo in a groovy fur coat as they pass each other on the street.I have to mention that closing scene, which involves Tony's "strut" down the street during the end credits. It kinda blew my mind, I mean wow, including close-ups of his ass in tight 80's jeans and him exclaiming "You know what I wanna do? Strut." .... Is this for real?Well it was fun anyways. 12.12