Saturday Night Fever 18

“The new generation takes few risks; it graduates, looks for a job, endures. And on Saturday night, it explodes.” – Nik Cohn, New York magazine. 1976.

Tony Manero (Travolta) spends his days working in a paint store with a troubled home life but come night he is the undisputed king of the dance floor. This iconic story of a disillusioned 19-year-old in Brooklyn is based on an article written by British music journalist Nik Cohn in 1976 for New York magazine. While Cohn later admitted the article was fictionalised, life truly imitated art following the release of Saturday Night Fever which resulted in a disco frenzy. With a soundtrack that became one of the bestselling film soundtracks of all time, reinvigorating the Bee Gees’ career, and an Oscar nomination for Travolta, Saturday Night Fever is a fun, dazzling, blockbuster classic.