Staying Alive (1983 film)

Staying Alive is the 1983 film sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as dancer Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn Morrow and Nanette Tarpey. It was directed, coproduced and cowritten by Sylvester Stallone.

Six years after the events depicted in Saturday Night Fever, former disco king Anthony Tony Manero is 25, out of Brooklyn, and now living in Manhattan. He lives in a flophouse and works as a dance instructor and a waiter at a dance club and searches for a big break in the modern dance productions on Broadway. The break from his Brooklyn life, family, and friends seems to have matured Tony and refined his personality, including his diminished Brooklyn accent, an avoidance of alcohol and less use of profanity. Other attitudes remain unchanged, such as his disregard for his most recent girlfriend, the forgiving Jackie Cynthia Rhodes. He maintains some of Tonys other macho double standards, such as seeing other women but offended if he sees Jackie with other men.Tony watches a show which features Jackie as a dancer in the chorus, but focuses on the lead, a seeminglywealthy English dancer, Laura Finola Hughes. Tony pursues her with seduction in mind, and spends the night with her. Hes annoyed when she dismisses him afterward, not understanding that she intended their encounter to be a onenight stand. Laura coldly justifies her treatment of him with a statement that Everybody uses everybody, and implies that Tony used her in order to get his dance role in her upcoming show. ........

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