Saturday Night Fever

Streaming video - 1979

Tony Manero (John Travolta's most iconic role) has an unsatisfying job at a paint store but on weekends he's the king of the dance floor at the local disco. There he finds Stephanie, who represents what he is looking for: a better lifer and a way out of Brooklyn. Familiar Disco music from the Bee Gees and other artists help make this a quintessential film of the '70s. Nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (John Travolta) at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical and Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (John Travolta) at the **Golden Globes**. *"These are among the most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed...Travolta gets so far inside the role he s...eems incapable of a false note; even the Brooklyn accent sounds unerring...At its best, though, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary." - Pauline Kael, **The New Yorker*** more