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Staying Alive
Directed by
Sylvester Stallone
PG
1983
1h 36m
Drama
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Romance
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4.8
40%
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Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet: succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
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Cast of Staying Alive
John Travolta
Tony Manero
Cynthia Rhodes
Jackie
Finola Hughes
Laura
Steve Inwood
Jesse
Julie Bovasso
Mrs. Manero
Charles Ward
Butler
Steve Bickford
Sound Technician
Patrick Brady
Derelict
Norma Donaldson
Fatima
Jesse Doran
Mark
Joyce Hyser
Linda
Deborah Jenssen
Margaret
Robert Martini
Fred
Sarah M. Miles
Joy
Tony Munafo
Doorman
Susan Olar
Model
Cindy Perlman
Cathy
Ross St. Phillip
Sound Man
Kurtwood Smith
Choreographer
Frank Stallone Jr.
Carl
Nell Alano
Dancer
Randy Allaire
Dancer
Audrey K. Baranishyn
Dancer
Paula Beyers
Dancer
Melita Brock-Warner
Dancer
Karen Bryson
Dancer
Bill Burns
Dancer
David Chavez
Dancer
Dennis Daniels
Dancer
Trac DiPonzio
Dancer
LaLanya Fair
Dancer
Forrest Gardner
Dancer
Rhonda Hairston
Dancer
Nanci L. Hammond
Dancer
Michael Higgins
Dancer
Michelle Johnston
Dancer
Janet Jones
Dancer
Rochelle G. Jones
Dancer
Erica Jordan
Dancer
James Ko
Dancer
Reggie Leon
Dancer
Ben Lokey
Dancer
Lee Anne Loomis
Dancer
Daniel Lorenzo
Dancer
Viktor Manoel
Dancer
Valerie-Jean Miller
Dancer
Anita Morales
Dancer
Frances Morgan
Dancer
Kevyn Morrow
Dancer
Reggie O'Gwin
Dancer
Polly O'Malley
Dancer
Francine O'Neill
Dancer
Smith Osbourne
Dancer
Carolyn Poppert
Dancer
Mark Reina
Dancer
Michael Rooney
Dancer
Kathy Shippen
Dancer
Karin Smith
Dancer
Rick Sullivant
Dancer
Nanette Tarpey
Dancer
Jim Thompson
Dancer
Peter Tramm
Dancer
Marvin Tunney
Dancer
Kate Wright
Dancer
Derryl Yeager
Dancer
Sylvester Stallone
Man on Street (uncredited)
David Daniel
Dancer (uncredited)
Harris-Metter Flame
Dancer (uncredited)
Richard Herrey
Dancer (uncredited)
Simmy Bow
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Rona Edwards
Agent (uncredited)
Helen Kelly
Girl at the Theater (uncredited)
Michael Mallory
First Nighter (uncredited)
Danny Nero
Audience Member (uncredited)
Stan Rodarte
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Richie Sambora
Music Club Band Guitarist (uncredited)
Stewart Strauss
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Staying Alive Ratings & Reviews
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February 8, 2025
How could I NOT like Staying Alive when it was released in 1983? I was an older teen, my Walkman was another appendage, I was in love with The Idea of romance and oh, how I loved to dance! That summer I was wiggling down Manhattan sidewalks to Lionel Richie's "All Night Long," dirty-dancin' on club floors to Prince & The Revolution's "Little Red Corvette" (the LP 1999 had come out in 1982), tossing my imaginary fedora to my basement floor upon the intro to MJJ's "Billie Jean" and, of course, wearing asymmetrical, cold-shoulder sweatshirts in every color of the rainbow. And that was all before I saw Staying Alive that autumn. I'd just seen Flashdance in the summer (for you millennials, that was my one-shoulder-bearing sweatshirt reference -- and I used to wear my hair like the Jennifer Beals character, too). I had gone to the movies no fewer than eight times to see Flashdance -- and this was in a time of the double feature, so I saw Flashdance almost a dozen times. I blew all my part-time salary between LPs and movies. So, when I finally saw Staying Alive, I was blown away! I already was practically living in Danskin. Long before jeggings and Spanx: teens, girls and women were walking around in ballet-style tights without the feet, leg warmers, Spandex, and the like. Those of us who also loved Prince and, after 1982, Madonna too, cautiously would wear certain lingerie on the outside, for the world to see. Because I already adored John Travolta from "Welcome Back, Kotter" and then in his breakthrough film role in Saturday Night Fever, and because I adored and tried to imitate the sexy moves of modern dancer Cynthia Rhodes from Flashdance (and would dig her again with the phenomenal Patrick Swayze [R.I.P.] in 1987's Dirty Dancing), I A.T.E. up Staying Alive. Yeah, I totally bought the cheesy dialogue, as it wasn't far from what I used to hear when on subway cars and in delis from chatty dancers and actresses in Manhattan. I went to high school in Hell's Kitchen but was living in a NYC suburb, so, as other reviewers have posted here, I too had Big Dreams of being a dancer in Manhattan. I totally was caught up in Tony Manero having to choose between the sweet, loyal chick (Cynthia Rhodes) and the icy, chic, world-savvy woman (Finola Hughes). I hadn't had my first boyfriend experience yet (I was too busy dancing and working), but I dreamed to be the woman that had a little of both of Tony's love interests. I wanted to have a hunky boyfriend to date in ways that today's teens probably think of as corny. Back then, it wasn't called "hanging out" and there was no social media; people had to pick up the phone, and sometimes it was a pay phone. You had to carry around dimes. Dimes were serious coin then. But -- and remember as you read this that I was eighteen -- I also dreamed to acquire the sophistication of the Finola Hughes character (not to mention to be able to fake her very real English accent), to travel to dance capitals and fashion capitals of the world, and to be able to seduce a reasonably older man *in the dance world*. lol ... I hadn't even had a glass of wine at that point. The cards that Life would deal me in the ensuing years made me the Cynthia Rhodes character, just nowhere near as pretty. I thought Finola Hughes was gorgeous -- not pretty, her look was an uncommon type in the U.S. But both ladies were beautiful, and I loved both of their accents and, definitely, both of their dancing acumen. "Staying Alive"--in all contexts--endures.
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Chuck O'Leary
If not quite one of the worst sequels ever made, it's near the top of the list of all-time most disappointing sequels. Writer-director Stallone stupidly attempts to turn Tony Manero into a dancing Rocky.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A slick, commercial cinematic jukebox, a series of self-contained song-and-dance sequences that could be cut apart and played forever on MTV -- which is probably what will happen.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
A sequel with no understanding of what made its predecessor work.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Was this sequel really necessary? Nope.
Box Office Prophets
Sean Collier
The production as a whole is too disjointed, repetitive and flat to really hang together.
Juicy Cerebellum
Alex Sandell
Saturday Night Fever through the eyes of Stallone.
Boston Phoenix
Owen Gleiberman
Staying Alive isn't just a disappointment -- it's a disgrace.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
As always Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither.
Variety
Variety Staff
The bottom line is that Staying Alive is nowhere as good as its 1977 predecessor, Saturday Night Fever.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
[Sylvester Stallone] pours lots of energy but little intelligence into scads of short, sweaty scenes more suited to the rhythms of cable-TV ''rock video'' than to the wide screen.
TV Guide
It all amounts to an embarrassing show of unrestrained, Hollywood-style egomania.
People Magazine
It is a movie caught in a time warp: a slick MTV video that celebrates Eisenhower-era morality. For the Staying Alive audience, the problem is staying awake.
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
More like staying dead...a monotonous and unnecessary sequel that has all the grace and flow of a greased hog on rollerskates
Movie City News
Leonard Klady
1.5
Apollo Guide
Scott Weinberg
So horrific are the musical sequences in this movie that you'll swear you were having nightmares directed by Satan himself.
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