Footloose (2011)

"Footloose won me over early...  New York Post
"...Footloose is fine...  Philadelphia Inquirer
"...has sex, swagger, and even an edge of danger...  The A.V. Club

Editor's Note HUSTLE & FLOW director Craig Brewer takes the helm for this remake of the popular 1984 musical romance about a big-city teen who moves to a town that has outlawed dancing. Uprooted from Boston and reluctantly transplanted to the small Bible Belt town of Bomont, Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) finds himself in a repressed community still reeling from a devastating loss. Shortly before he arrived in Bomont, five local teens perished in a tragic car accident following a local dance. As a result, the upstanding Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) and the local councilmen passed a strict ordinance outlawing both dancing and excessively loud music. Convinced that the new law is hopelessly misguided, rebellious Ren puts on his dancing shoes and wins the heart of Reverend Moore's distraught daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), while showing his fellow classmates that it's perfectly normal to blow off a little steam with some loud music and good friends.

	Miles Teller
	Dennis Quaid
	Julianne Hough
	Kenny Wormald
	Andie MacDowell
	Ray McKinnon - Co-Star
	Travis Young - Co-Star
	Michelle "Jersey" Maniscalco - Co-Star
	Kendra Andrews - Co-Star
	Corey Flaspoler - Co-Star
	Jamal Sims - Co-Star
	Whitney Brown - Co-Star
	Laura Edwards - Co-Star
	Jayson Smith - Co-Star
	Spencer Liff - Co-Star
	Amber Wallace - Co-Star
	John Still - Co-Star
	Dean Pitchford - Story
	Dean Pitchford - Screenwriter
	Dena Roth - Set Decorator
	Lonnie Smith - Stunt Coordinator
	Joe Camp III - Assistant Director
	Marty Eli Schwartz - Assistant Director
	Tim Bourne - Production Manager/UPM
	Daniel J. Leahy - Sound Re-Recording
	Susan E. Novick - Post-Production Supervisor
	Brett Rice - Co-Star
	Frank Hoyt Taylor - Co-Star
	L. Warren Young - Co-Star
	Kim Dickens - Co-Star
	Katherine Levy - Co-Star
	Clay Chappell - Co-Star
	Craig Brewer - Co-Star
	Brian Mason - Co-Star
	Dakota Smith - Co-Star
	Katherine Slattery - Co-Star
	Patrick Flueger - Co-Star
	Tamara Levinson - Co-Star
	Maggie Jones - Co-Star
	Daniel Burnley - Co-Star
	Luis A. Rosado - Co-Star
	Tony Vaughn - Co-Star
	Michael McDonough - Co-Star
	Tracy Goode - Co-Star
	Claude Phillips - Co-Star
	Brian F. Durkin - Co-Star
	Misha Hamilton - Co-Star
	Larke Hasstedt - Co-Star
	Anessa Ramsey - Co-Star
	Craig Brewer - Screenwriter
	Jeffrey P. Greeley - Camera Operator
	Teresa Foshee - Makeup
	Deborah Lurie - Composer
	Dale Williams - Production Manager/UPM
	Amelia Vincent - Director of Photography
	XY&Z Visual Effects - Visual Effects Designer
	Sarah Mays - Makeup Designer
	Jamal Sims - Choreographer
	Wildfire Visual Effects - Visual Effects Designer
	Shunika Terry - Hairstylist
	Michael Prestwood Smith - Sound Re-Recording
	Kate Duke - Costumes
	Kevin McKeever - Music Editor
	Claire Callaway - Co-Star
	Jack Davidson - Co-Star
	Sandra Ellis Lafferty - Co-Star
	Clayton Landey - Co-Star
	Nicholas Lanzisera - Co-Star
	Hannah Douglass - Co-Star
	Ziah Colon - Co-Star
	Ser'Darius Blain - Co-Star
	Mary Charles Jones - Co-Star
	Enisha Brewster - Co-Star
	Josh Warren - Co-Star
	Jason Ferguson - Co-Star
	Staley Colvert - Co-Star
	Alisa Pettit - Co-Star
	D. Dylan Schettina - Co-Star
	Blair Jasin - Co-Star
	Jasmine Cook - Co-Star
	Reece Thomas - Co-Star
	Ivey Lowe - Co-Star
	Anna Marie Dobbins - Co-Star
	Kevin Renard Fisher - Co-Star
	Andrew Ruark - Co-Star
	Kyle Wayne Cordova - Co-Star
	Alvester Martin - Co-Star
	Madison Benson - Co-Star
	Jonathan Sylvan Carey - Co-Star
	Charles Carr - Co-Star
	Sarah Connor - Co-Star
	Kasey Davage - Co-Star
	Chynna Dulac - Co-Star
	Brett Frost - Co-Star
	Terrence Gilbert Green - Co-Star
	Ashlyn Henson - Co-Star
	Cicely Kelley - Co-Star
	Elysandra Quinones - Co-Star
	Brandon Sauve - Co-Star
	Allan Skeene Jr. - Co-Star
	Amanda Topper - Co-Star
	Jasmine Badie - Co-Star
	Sean Bankhead - Co-Star
	Terence Terell Dickson - Co-Star
	Kiara Ely - Co-Star
	Comfort Fedoke - Co-Star
	Hannah Huddleston - Co-Star
	Stephen Stevo Jones - Co-Star
	JaQuel Knight - Co-Star
	Ron Myles - Co-Star
	Britney Chelene Thomas - Co-Star
	Christopher Toler - Co-Star
	Nanci Anderson - Co-Star
	Jeffery Scott Bailey - Co-Star
	Liana Blackburn - Co-Star
	Brent L. Boxberger - Co-Star
	Taylor Bradley - Co-Star
	Kelley Bradshaw - Co-Star
	Robert Chabott - Co-Star
	C. Ryan Chandler - Co-Star
	Amanda Davisson - Co-Star
	Troy Dela Rosa - Co-Star
	Danella Dutton - Co-Star
	Aisha Francis - Co-Star
	Jonathan Fritschi - Co-Star
	Joey Hernandez - Co-Star
	Katherine Hough - Co-Star
	Jeremy Craig Hudson - Co-Star
	Dacia James - Co-Star
	George Jones Jr. - Co-Star
	William Ladd - Co-Star
	Meryl Lester - Co-Star
	Megan Mackey - Co-Star
	Dennis McKinnie - Co-Star
	Keltie Colleen Minksky - Co-Star
	Marriann Nelson - Co-Star
	Brent Ours - Co-Star
	Marabeth Poole - Co-Star
	Harrison Jonathan Prater - Co-Star
	Melissa Rummels - Co-Star
	Monique Slaughter - Co-Star
	Lisa Thomas - Co-Star
	Gissette E. Valentin - Co-Star
	Tyler Duncan Wall - Co-Star
	Quincy Lamar Willis - Co-Star
	Sharee Wise - Co-Star
	Joshua Allen - Co-Star
	Tucker Barkley - Co-Star
	Bianca Brewton - Co-Star
	Bboy Kid David - Co-Star
	Justin Michael DeVera - Co-Star
	Michael Brandon Dizon - Co-Star
	Christina Glur - Co-Star
	Cory Graves - Co-Star
	Dayna Michelle Harris - Co-Star
	Ivan Koumaev - Co-Star
	Matthew Laraway - Co-Star
	Ahrielle Mace - Co-Star
	Candace Neolani Maxwell - Co-Star
	Glenda Morales - Co-Star
	Abbye Myers - Co-Star
	Christian Owens - Co-Star
	Kayla Jenee Radomski - Co-Star
	Carson Marie Seeley - Co-Star
	Brittny Sugarman - Co-Star
	Melanie Ullmann - Co-Star
	Miguel Angel Zarate - Co-Star
	Craig Brewer - Director

Entertainment Weekly
"[S]tepping into sacred shoes once worn by Kevin Bacon, Wormald handily owns the role for a new audience....Guardian of the '80s flame will approve..." -- Grade: A- 10/14/2011

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Craig Brewer's remake is respectful....[Wormald] is a solid, likeable lead." 11/01/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[FOOTLOOSE] stays remarkably close to its predecessor in all the ways that count." 10/14/2011

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "From start to finish, Brewer's remake exudes the look and style of its forebearers....It works..." 10/05/2011

Movieline
"This is a pop entertainment made with an eye for detail....Much of the dancing is still great fun to watch -- the sequences are exuberant..." 10/13/2011

Entertainment Weekly 9 of 10
Stepping into sacred shoes once worn by Kevin Bacon, Wormald handily owns the role for a new audience. Same goes for a terrific Miles Teller (Rabbit Hole) in the sidekick role of Willard so memorably originated by the late Chris Penn.

Movieline 9 of 10
Brewer, who spent most of his childhood in Memphis, is one of the few contemporary filmmakers I know of who can make movies about the South without sentimentalizing it, glorifying it or looking down on it.