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Tony Manero, who is a guy who lives in Brooklyn, shines every Saturday night on the dance floor. And Stephanie is a beautiful girl. He has ambition to win a dance contest. Tony dances to challenge social circumstance of failure.
Saturday Night Fever is wonderfully honest and completely accurate when it comes to depicting that stagnant environment that keeps young people like Tony pinned down.
Mr. Travolta is deft and vibrant, and he never condescends to the character, not even in a scene that has Tony and Stephanie arguing about whose Romeo and Juliet it is, Zeffirelli's or Shakespeare's.
May 20, 2003
The ARTery
This is one tough picture - bristling and raw, with an aggression more attuned to angry-young-man British kitchen sink dramas than Hollywood's quickie music-fad cash-ins.
Travolta's characterization, given the script and directorial demands, is okay. It will please the already-committed; but it won't win him any new fans.