a film of enormous charm . it about dance but unlike many film about dance it doesn not take itself seriously . it loose limbed and goofy and it lift you up . it set in a high school in a small mid western town where dancing have be ban while ( it remind me of a joke i hear here in ulster while why do free presbyterian disapprove of make love stand up . it might lead to dance ) . kevin bacon be the new kid in town who want the ban lift . indeed and this boy seem to live to dance and he immensely likable . he use his killer smile to great effect . in this movie the dancing be integral to the plot and it evolve from it naturally and and for once and the director herbert ross take thing easy . as well a bacon and the film have lori singer and ( the obligatory love interest ) and and john lithgow and dianne wiest a her parent . he the bible thumper who think that dance be sinful and wiest and with her wan and other worldly smile and be the wife who doesn not as well a a very young chris penn a the over weight farm boy bacon teach to dance in a wonderful sequence choreograph to denise williams let hear it for the boy .