Staying Alive (1983 film)
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| Directed by | Sylvester Stallone |
| Produced by | Sylvester Stallone Robert Stigwood |
| Written by | Sylvester Stallone Norman Wexler |
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Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb |
| Cinematography | Nick McLean |
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Peter E. Berger Mark Warner Don Zimmerman |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22 million |
| Box office | $64.8 million |
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| Released | June 1983 (US) July 1983 (UK) |
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| Recorded | February–March 1983 Middle Ear, Miami Beach, Florida, United States |
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| Genre | Rock, soft rock, funk, R&B, new wave, dance | |||
| Label | RSO | |||
| Producer | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson | |||
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Staying Alive is a 1983 American dance film and a sequel to Saturday Night Fever (1977) starring John Travolta as dancer Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel and Kevyn Morrow. It was directed, co-produced and co-written by Sylvester Stallone.
The title comes from the Bee Gees song of the same name, 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 along with Homefront, one of only two films which Stallone has written without being the star (although he does have a cameo).
Six years after the events depicted in Saturday Night Fever, former disco king Anthony "Tony" Manero is 25, out of Brooklyn, and now living in Manhattan. He lives in a flophouse and works as a dance instructor and a waiter at a dance club and searches for a big break in the modern dance productions on Broadway. The break from his Brooklyn life, family, and friends seems to have matured Tony and refined his personality, including his diminished Brooklyn accent, an avoidance of alcohol and less use of profanity. Other attitudes remain unchanged, such as his disregard for his most recent girlfriend, the forgiving Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes). Still immature, Tony maintains some of his other macho and childish double standards, such as seeing other women but offended if he sees Jackie with other men.
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