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Staying Alive is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sylvester Stallone released in USA on 11 july 1983 with John Travolta

Staying Alive (1983)

Staying Alive
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Released in USA 11 july 1983
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama,    Action,    Musical,    Romance
Rating47% 2.3632352.3632352.3632352.3632352.363235

Staying Alive is the 1983 film sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as dancer Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn Morrow and Nanette Tarpey. It was directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone.

The title comes from the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive", which was used as the theme song to Saturday Night Fever and is also played during the final scene of Staying Alive. It also goes hand-in-hand with Tony's new lifestyle, in which he is barely surviving as he pursues his dream of making dancing his career. This is the only film other than Homefront which Sylvester Stallone has written in which he does not star (although he does have a cameo).

Synopsis

Set some six years after the events of Saturday Night Fever, former disco king Anthony "Tony" Manero is now 25. He has left Brooklyn, and is now living in Manhattan, staying in a flophouse while he works as a dance instructor and as a waiter at a dance club, looking for his big break in the modern dance productions on Broadway. The breakaway he has from his Brooklyn life, family, and friends seems to have matured Tony and refined his personality, specifically represented by his diminished Brooklyn accent and his avoidance of alcohol and profanity. However, certain attitudes have not changed, as with his most recent girlfriend, the forgiving Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes). One attitude he holds consists of a double standard whereby he feels at liberty to see other women, but becomes vexed if he finds Jackie with other men.

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