| | | Hard hat days and honky-tonk nights.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, French, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby, Digital Audio
John Travolta is the Urban Cowboy, breakin' hearts and bustin' mechanical bulls in one of his most electrifying film roles. By day, Bud Davis (Travolta) toils at a Texas oil refinery; at night, he trades his hard hat for a Stetson and heads to Giley's, Houston's most popular nightclub. There, he meets a pretty two-stepper names Sissy (Debra Winger) who thinks Bud is a "real cowboy." But Bud's got to prove it when a dangerous ex-con (Scott Glenn) schemes to rob Giley's and steal Sissy's heart. Travolta and Winger make an unforgettable screen couple in this compelling, Texas-sized look at a country western way of life. Featuring a hit soundtrack and musical appearances by Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt and The Charlie Daniels Band.
"An evocative slice of life..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
John Travolta and Debra Winger star in this cowboy version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, in which all the action takes place at Gilley's country-western bar, a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk in the heart of Houston. Travolta plays Bud, a young country farmer who moves to the city to find work at an oil refinery and finds love with Sissy (Winger), a cowgirl of easy virtue and spirit. The two country-western singles fall in love on the dance floor of Gilley's and quickly marry only to discover that their workaday life is harder to cope with than they imagined, lightened only by hard-drinking weekends of glory at Gilley's, where they're both local heroes, line-dancin' and struttin' their stuff until dawn. In between crowd-pleasing rides on the club's mechanical bull, Bud and Sissy struggle to keep their new romance alive despite the competitive attentions of a new cowboy in town, a bull-riding ex-convict (Scott Glenn) who has his eye on Sissy. James Bridges's hard-driving drama glimmers with the intensity of the super saloon, capturing the wild and rough life of the modern cowboy. The soundtrack features musical performances from such greats as Bonnie Raitt, Mickey Gilley, Boz Scaggs, Kenny Rogers, and the Charlie Daniels Band.
| Features | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TV's | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, Brazillian, Portuguese | | Outtakes | | Rehearsal Footage | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | English Dolby Surround | | French Mono |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 3/22/2005 |
| Running Time: 134 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1980 | | Catalog ID: 012854 | | UPC: 00097360128543 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (1981) | | | Debra Winger, Nominee, Best Motion Picture Actress In A Supporting Role | | | Debra Winger, Nominee, New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture-Female |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Winger is outstanding....[Travolta] has a strong screen magnetism..." 06/04/1980New York Times
"...URBAN COWBOY is the most entertaining, most perceptive commercial American movie of the year....First-rate..." 06/11/1980 p.C21 |
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