At the Movies: Footloose Cuts Loose at Theaters

Gen Xers may feel a sense of déjà vu at the box office this weekend with the release of Footloose, a popular 1984 musical romance.

This remake has the same plot surrounding a big-city teen who moves to a town that bans dancing, but is an updated version by Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer.

Here’s the plot from moviefone.com:

Uprooted from Boston and reluctantly transplanted to the small Bible Belt town of Bomont, Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) finds himself in a repressed community still reeling from a devastating loss. Shortly before he arrived in Bomont, five local teens perished in a tragic car accident following a local dance. As a result, the upstanding Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) and the local councilmen passed a strict ordinance outlawing both dancing and excessively loud music.

Convinced that the new law is hopelessly misguided, rebellious Ren puts on his dancing shoes and wins the heart of Reverend Moore's distraught daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), while showing his fellow classmates that it's perfectly normal to blow off a little steam with some loud music and good friends.

MPAA Rating: PG for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language.

Genre(s): musicals, romance

Run Time: 113min.

Distributor(s): Paramount

Director(s): Craig Brewer

Starring: Kenny Wormald , Julianne Hough , Andie MacDowell , Dennis Quaid , Miles Teller

Themes: fighting the system, small-town life, new kid in town, teen angst

Tone: passionate, rousing, sentimental, warm

Footloose is showing locally at AMC Lake in the Hills 12, 311 N. Randall Road, Lake in the Hills. For movie times and a trailer, click here for Moviefone's website.