USA
1980/35mm/93mins — SPECIAL OUTDOOR SCREENING
FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER 7.00 PM (Arc Outdoors) – BUY!
Dust off your boot skates and dress like the 80s for the cult roller-disco musical fantasy starring Olivia Newton-John.
Doors open at 7.00 PM for a sunset start.
Special ticket prices: FILM ONLY or FILM + snackbox
Post-Grease, Olivia Newton-John was set to become a star in her own right as a muse who makes dreams come true. Ailing wannabee entrepreneur Sonny Malone (Michael Beck, dubbed over by Cliff Richard in the singing scenes) wants to open the roller disco of his dreams. The duo is helped along the way by businessman Danny McGuire, played by Gene Kelly in his final feature film, who injects some 40s jazz and swing into the outfit. The 40s and the 80s then collide to make the coolest roller disco in movie history.
That was the plan anyway. At the time of its release, the film’s claim to fame was a hit soundtrack (featuring Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff, Gene and Olivia) and being the co-inspiration with the Village People film for the anti-Oscar Awards, the Razzies. Time has been kind and Xanadu is now the cult hit it was destined to become.
“… it’s not as bad as “Can’t Stop the Music …” Roger Ebert
Director Robert Greenwald Writers Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel
Producers Brendan Cahill, Lawrence Gordon, Lee Kramer, Terence Nelson, Joel Silver
Cast Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
Print Source Universal Pictures
