Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American
dance film directed by
John Badham and starring
John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn
discotheque;
Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual friend; and
Donna Pescow as Annette, Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a
dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.