Urban Cowboy

Urban Cowboy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Bridges
Produced by	Irving Azoff Robert Evans
Screenplay by	James Bridges Aaron Latham
Story by	Aaron Latham
Starring	John Travolta Debra Winger Scott Glenn Barry Corbin Madolyn Smith
Music by	Ralph Burns
Cinematography	Reynaldo Villalobos
Edited by	David Rawlins
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 6, 1980 (1980-06-06)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$53,300,000 (USA)

Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American (genre) romantic drama film about the love-hate relationship between Buford Uan "Bud" Davis (John Travolta) and Sissy (Debra Winger). The movie captured the late 1970s/early 1980s popularity of country music. It was John Travolta's third major acting role after Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Much of the action centers around activities at Gilley's Club, a honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas.

The film's screenplay was adapted by Aaron Latham and James Bridges from an article by the same name in Esquire Magazine written by Latham. The original Esquire article centered on the romance between two Gilley's regulars named Dew Westbrook and Betty Helmer. Westbrook and Helmer's real life relationship became the inspiration for the on screen romance between John Travolta's and Debra Winger's characters "Bud" and "Sissy". The movie was directed by Bridges. Some film critics referred to the movie as a country music version of Saturday Night Fever. The film grossed almost $47 million in the United States alone, and temporarily recovered Travolta from the flop Moment by Moment (1978), but the film was nowhere near as successful as either Saturday Night Fever ($94 million) or Grease ($188 million).

While filming Urban Cowboy, John Travolta had a private corner at the Westheimer Road location of the Ninfa's restaurant in Houston.

Urban Cowboy was the first motion picture to be choreographed by Patsy Swayze, which launched her career as a film choreographer.