Footloose

Revealing mistake: When Ariel is playing chicken with the oncoming truck, as she is standing on both cars, notice that her hair is dark brown to black in colour, then it's blonde again. The hair colour changes a few times. It's obviously a stunt woman.

Gisella

Revealing mistake: After her fight with Chuck, Ariels face is bruised and her mouth bleeding, and she has a black eye. However, in the following scene, with Ren at his car, her black eye changes between shots. In the closeups it's dark and apparent, but in the medium shots it appears almost healed.

eaglegrad16

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.

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Ren: Up on the roof, oh yeah. 100 proof, oh yeah. I'm feelin' fine, oh yeah. Drink cherry wine, oh yeah.

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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.

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Question: When Ren is driving with his friends at night, he is told about the circumstances behind the death of Ariel's brother. It was quite clear that it was driving while under the influence of alcohol that was responsible for his death so why blame it on playing loud music?

Answer: The belief was that rock and roll was the root cause of the accident. The adults who supported the ban believed that rock and roll influenced the teens to do things they wouldn't normally do, such as drinking and driving.

BaconIsMyBFF

Answer: One of the kids answers the question during the conversation by saying something along the lines of there's three things involved, and the adults didn't wanna get rid of two of 'em, which left dancing/music.

kayelbe

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