It’s not bad, it’s a nice testament of its era.
During the initial song, we see feet dancing, one person a time.
We hear right away what it’s about, we see a small town and hear a sermon, and see that the church is packed full. The pastor preaches against rock and porn as evils.
Ren and his mother are new in town, and right away he appears to dislike that stiff attitude. His father left them.
The reverend’s daughter Ariel is quite wild too when he doesn’t see her, in a out-of-her-mind way that gives her friends a heart attack.
When her dad busts her swaying to rock music, he looks more hurt/shocked than angry, though.
Ren befriends Willard and tells him about his life in the big city, Chicago, full of dancing.
He thinks they’re joking when they tell him that dancing is illegal here.
Some kids died in a car wreck five or six year before, and people went crazy blaming music and dancing and liquor (liquor is often a problem, but dancing has no relation to it, kids don’t drink ‘because’ of the music and dancing, kids drink because adults and television have taught them that’s what adults do, what adults have to do to have fun.
Ariel spends her time playing tough, being wild with Chuck and dreaming of going away.
Everyone in town - all adults at least - is against Ren, thinking he’s trouble, and it frustrates him, so he… goes out alone and dances by himself, the rebel!!!
Ariel shows him a place where they wrote quotes from forbidden books.
It really annoys Ren that everyone is against him, without him doing anything to earn it. So he takes Ariel and her friend Rusty plus Willard and they go dancing. Luckily he has friends.
The reverend started the whole thing because one of the kids that died was Ariel’s brothter, but the other men are now worse than him.
Ren is planning a prom dance. He teaches Willard to dance and will have to speak to the town council for permission. He presents a good argument, if a little bit aggressive, but it’s good for television.
He’s denied, of course, but then his boss suggests he do it in the next city. The city itself may be far away, but the border is very near, very very close indeed.
Ren is not against the reverend, even goes to his house to ask to take Ariel to the prom.
The reverend talks about the dance in church, about the warehouse they got permission to use for the prom dance, but is not condemning and talks about trusting one’s kids.
So they dress up and have their ball… and it’s all nice until some bullies arrive to fight. Ren and Willard beat them up once then go in and dance, and… it’s the end. The bullies do not go back in, and who cares about tomorrow, this was about the dance after all.
Ren - Kevin Bacon
Willard - Christopher Penn
Rusty - Sarah Jessica Parker
Ariel - Lori Singer
Rev. Shaw Moore - John Lithgow
Vi Moore - Dianne Wiest
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