---
title: 'Saturday Night Fever (1977)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Badham'
released: '1977-12-16'
runtime_minutes: 118
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/saturday-night-fever-1977'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Saturday Night Fever (1977)

1977 · 118 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local disco while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 New York article by the music writer Nik Cohn.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Badham](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-badham)
- **Screenplay:** [Nik Cohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/nik-cohn), [Norman Wexler](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-wexler)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Barry Gibb](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-gibb)
- **Producer:** [Robert Stigwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-stigwood)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ralf D. Bode](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralf-d-bode)

## Cast

- [Adrienne King](https://cinepixo.com/people/adrienne-king)
- [Paul Pape](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-pape)
- [Joseph Cali](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-cali)
- [Donna Pescow](https://cinepixo.com/people/donna-pescow)
- [Lisa Peluso](https://cinepixo.com/people/lisa-peluso)
- [Bruce Ornstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-ornstein)
- [Barry Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-miller)
- [Martin Shakar](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-shakar)
- [Robert Costanzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-costanzo)
- [John Travolta](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-travolta)
- [Fran Drescher](https://cinepixo.com/people/fran-drescher)
- [Val Bisoglio](https://cinepixo.com/people/val-bisoglio)
- [Karen Lynn Gorney](https://cinepixo.com/people/karen-lynn-gorney)
- [Sam Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-coppola)
- [Julie Bovasso](https://cinepixo.com/people/julie-bovasso)

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