Genre: Drama / Music / Romance Director(s): Herbert Ross Release Date: 17 February 1984 Movie rating: 6.5

Imagine if there was a law that prohibits the dancing in public, or anywhere else. As well as the rock music. What would you do? That is the same question a young teenage boy had to deal with. The story is set in a small mid Western town called Bomont. The whole thing begins when a young teenage boy Ren MacCormack (Kevin Bacon) and his mother, as they move from a big city to Bomont after their parents' divorce. As soon as they come, Ren enrols into high school and finds out in the matter of seconds that the dancing in public as well as the rock music have been banned in this town. And for all of that is responsible the local preacher called Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow). After an accident that occurred while couple of teenagers had died, the preacher had set out to stop it all from happening again, not realizing that banning the music won't help, but make things only worse. Along the way, as he had his mind set to change things around, Ren discovers the whole underground series of events, where the local teenagers are listening to rock music and dancing, Ren is more than determined to change everything. Along the way he falls in love with preacher's daughter- Ariel.

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