Other: During the scene that Kevin Bacon is teaching his friend to dance, you can see the Rocky Mountains behind him. (The film is set in Iowa, but filmed in American Fork, Utah).
Great sites
Mistakes
In the sequence where the young are in the field to clear up the rules of "chicken game" (or something), you can see a part of a microphone above them. See more...
Trivia
In the scene where Rev. Shaw shows Ren a picture of his deceased son Bobby, John Lithgow actually showed a picture of his real son. See more...
Footloose (1984)
Directed by Herbert Ross, starring Chris Penn, John Lithgow, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Jessica Parker (add more)
Footloose mistakes
Visible crew/equipment: In the sequence where the young are in the field to clear up the rules of "chicken game" (or something), you can see a part of a microphone above them.
Other: During the final dance scene, a blonde guy pops out of the crowd to do a solo dance. While he is dancing, there are random shots of the crowd cheering. During one of those crowd shots you can spot the young man cheering himself on.
Footloose trivia
The film's soundtrack album knocked Michael Jackson's "Thriller" off the top of the U.S. album charts, where it had ranked for more than a year.
Beaumont High School is really "Payson High School" in Payson, Utah.
With the Principal's knowledge, 24-year-old Kevin Bacon attended the Provo Utah High School as "Ren McCormack", a transfer student from Philadelphia to get into his role. With his narrow tie and new-wave haircut, he was treated pretty much like in the film. Bacon gratefully left with the location scouts on the afternoon of the first day.