The soundtrack spins wall-to-wall bangers and the disco sequences thrill, but the reason journeyman John Badham’s epochal smash still works like a 4/4 beat comes down to character and story. John Travolta, never better as a sort of human husky dog, senses a bigger life beyond the 9-to-5 and the release of the dancefloor. But can he escape? -Lee Gardner
1977 Dir. John Badham 1.85:1 Color DCP 118 min.
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