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Rating: 5.726/10 by 462 users

Staying Alive (1983)

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.

Directing:
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Julie Pitkanen
Writing:
  • Nik Cohn
  • Norman Wexler
  • Sylvester Stallone
Stars:
Release Date: Mon, Jul 11, 1983

Rating: 5.726/10 by 462 users

Alternative Title:
Os Embalos de Sábado Continuam - BR
Stayin` Alive - GR

Country:
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $22,000,000
Revenue: $64,892,670

Plot Keyword: career, dancing master, nightclub, disco, broadway

John Travolta
Tony Manero
Julie Bovasso
Mrs. Manero
Steve Bickford
Sound Technician
Kurtwood Smith
Choreographer
Sylvester Stallone
Man on Street (uncredited)
David Daniel
Dancer (uncredited)
Harris-Metter Flame
Dancer (uncredited)
Richard Herrey
Dancer (uncredited)
Simmy Bow
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Rona Edwards
Agent (uncredited)
Helen Kelly
Girl at the Theater (uncredited)
Michael Mallory
First Nighter (uncredited)
Danny Nero
Audience Member (uncredited)
Stan Rodarte
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Richie Sambora
Music Club Band Guitarist (uncredited)
Stewart Strauss
Bar Patron (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

Well I suppose it has the song.... Otherwise, this is a really poor and tawdry sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" that took six years to come to fruition. Quite why anyone but the accountant thought this was a good idea is anyone's guess - but John Travolta reprises his role as "Tony", this time trying to make it onto the Broadway stage. He's a changed man - he holds off on the booze, speaks poshly - hell, he even swears less. To be fair to director Sylvester Stallone, he does try to be innovative with his dance coverage - and the famous Travolta strut has lost none of it's hip-swinging rhythm, but the dialogue is dreadful and the characterisations really hemmed in by some shockingly poor acting - not least from the wooden Finola Hughes as the stroppy and petulant "Laura" and Cynthia Rhodes fares no better as "Jackie". The title track from the Bee Gees is the only really memorable song on a card that is busy, and oddly enough does work ok with the pace of this film - it's all just, well, rotten. The first film was not great, this makes it look outstanding.


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