Tribeca: Footloose with Kevin Bacon
NEW YORK – The OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC Tribeca Film Festival (Friday, June 14 2024) presenting FOOTLOOSE 40 years anniversary with Kevin Bacon.
Footloose, (United States). A 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn the ban on dancing instituted by the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow). A Paramount Pictures release.
Director
Herbert Ross
Screenwriter
Dean Pitchford
Cast
Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Chris Penn
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon is one of the foremost actors of his generation. His talent for balancing starring roles with powerful supporting characters in film, television and on stage has allowed him to build a varied and critically acclaimed body of work.
With the support of his parents, Bacon left his native Philadelphia to become the youngest student at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York, where he studied until he made his film debut as “Chip” in National Lampoon’s Animal House. This led to roles in Diner and Footloose, the latter of which propelled him to stardom.
Bacon has starred in a wide range of film genres, from action thrillers to romantic comedies to heavy dramas, and even the occasional musical. Just some of Bacon’s film credits include John Hughes’ She’s Having a Baby, The Big Picture, Tremors, Flatliners, Oliver Stone’s JFK, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, The River Wild for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Murder in the First for which he was named Best Actor by The Broadcast Film Critics Association and received Best Supporting Actor nominations from The Screen Actors Guild and the London Film Critics Circle, Ron Howard’s award-winning Apollo 13, Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-nominated film Mystic River and The Woodsman for which he received an IFP Spirit Award nomination.
Additional film credits include Barry Levinson’s Sleepers, with Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro; Balto; Picture Perfect, with Jennifer Aniston; Telling Lies in America; Wild Things; David Koepp’s Stir of Echoes; the sleeper hit My Dog Skip; Hollow Man; Trapped, with Charlize Theron; Beauty Shop; Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies; The Air I Breathe; Death Sentence; Rails & Ties; My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger; James Gunn’s Super; and Frost/Nixon, which reunited him with Apollo 13 director Ron Howard, Crazy, Stupid, Love; Jayne Mansfield’s Car by director Billy Bob Thornton, and Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class.
Bacon starred in Greg McLean’s horror film The Darkness. He also appeared in Scott Cooper’s
