Grease Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Randal Kleiser
Genres: Musical
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry_Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan_Carr and director Randal_Kleiser turned this long-running Jim_Jacobs-Warren_Casey Broadway smash into the biggest blockbuster of 1978. 1950s teens Danny (John_Travolta) and Australian transfer Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) spend their "Summer Nights" falling in love, but once fall comes, it's back to Rydell High and its cliques. As one of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny has to act cool for best pal Kenickie (Jeff_Conaway) and their leather-clad mates Sonny (Michael_Tucci) and Doody (Barry_Pearl, in the role Travolta played on-stage). Despite befriending Frenchy (Didi_Conn), one of the rebel Pink Ladies, virginal Sandy is "too pure to be Pink," as the Ladies' leader, Rizzo (Stockard_Channing), acidly observes. Declaring their devotion in such ballads as "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Sandy," Sandy and Danny split, reconcile, and split again amidst a pep rally, dances, drive-ins, and a drag race, before deciding "You're the One That I Want" at the climactic carnival. With Travolta white-hot from Saturday_Night_Fever (1977), Grease soundtrack singles climbed the charts and summer movie crowds poured in. With the presence of Joan_Blondell, Eve_Arden, Sid_Caesar, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, and Frankie_Avalon appealing to grown-up memories, Grease became the highest-grossing film of 1978, the highest-grossing movie musical ever, and the third most popular film of the new blockbuster '70s after Star_Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975). Its sequel, Grease_2, did not exactly set the world on fire in 1982. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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