a those of you who know me from the message board will know and i will have a place in my heart for this movie . on march 10th of this year and i attend my high school production of the broadway musical version of footloose and and love it . it be one of the best night of this school year so far ( for reason i should not go into too much detail here ) . still and it take about five and a half week before i could see the movie on which the musical be base . the plot and for those of you really want it represent ren mccormack ( kevin bacon ) be a chicago kid who move to the small indiana town of bomont and where the local priest and shaw moore ( john lithgow ) and have outlaw rock music and dancing ( due to the death of his son in a car accident ) . after turn the local kid ( include lori singer and chris penn and and sarah jessica parker ) onto the tune of kenny loggins and ren decide it time to change the town rule about dance . meanwhile and moore grows increasingly sympathetic towards ren and due to his daughter ( singer ) feeling towards him and and his be the target of abuse by the local bully ( jim young ) and the overly conservative town council . do ren win his fight . what do you think . overall and this movie conform to how i think it would turn out represent it be completely silly and but fun and an entertaining waste of a day off from school . the music be great ( though certain song be hardly use and namely my favorite and somebody eye ) and and be alone worth watch it for . the only excessively silly scene be ren gymnastic routine in an empty flour mill and which make me laugh my butt off at how stupid it be . other than that and however and nothing be wrong with this movie and which be successful at what it set out to do represent entertain . just because it isn not doctor zhivago or lawrence of arabia doesn not mean it a bad film . the cast be good if unspectacular . kevin bacon and lori singer and chris penn and sarah jessica parker ( whom i almost do not recognize . ) be solid and it easy to see why most of them go on to become star while they look like theyre have fun throughout and be very convincing . but john lithgow walk away with the act prize for this film while his character be surprisingly complex and well develop for a film of this type and and it to lithgow credit that he be able to make shaw moore a sympathetic character . be footloose a great film . no . be it one i will want to watch over and over again . no . do i enjoy it . yes . and and a i say and for the sake of all of my friend at school who be in their production of it and i will always think fondly of footloose . i will give footloose a warm seven star . i do not know what more to say on here and except i hope i get to see the musical version again ( and not a the propose film remake . ) .