Footloose (1984) Footloose
Director: Herbert Ross Writer: Dean Pitchford Starring: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker IMDB: tt0087277
Ren McCormack, a Chicago teenager, moves with his mother to the small Midwestern town of Bomont, where dancing and rock music have been outlawed in the wake of a tragic accident that killed four high-school students returning from an out-of-town dance. The local minister, the Reverend Shaw Moore, was the architect of the ban — one of the four kids killed was his son. Ren chafes against the law, befriends the troubled Ariel Moore (the reverend's daughter) and the affable hayseed Willard Hewitt, and ultimately petitions the town council to allow a senior prom, citing scripture about a "time to dance."