Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discotheque Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual friend and Donna Pescow as Annette, Tonys former dance partner and wouldbe girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life a deadend job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.
Anthony Tony Manero John Travolta is a 19yearold Italian American man from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Tony lives with his parents Val Bisoglio and Julie Bovasso, and works at a deadend job in a small hardware store. The stagnant monotony of his life is temporarily dispelled every Saturday night when Tony is king of the dance floor at 2001 Odyssey, a local disco club. Tony has four close friends Joey Joseph Cali Double J Paul Pape Gus Bruce Ornstein and the diminutive Bobby C. Barry Miller. A fringe member of this group of friends is Annette Donna Pescow, a neighborhood girl who longs for a more permanent physical relationship with Tony.One plot device in the films narrative is the VerrazanoNarrows Bridge on which the friends ritually stop to clown around. The bridge has special significance for Tony as a symbol of escape to a better life on the other sidein more suburban Staten Island. ........
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