Grease

    Grease
    1978

    Synopsis

    Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

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    Cast

    • John TravoltaDanny Zuko
    • Olivia Newton-JohnSandy Olsson
    • Stockard ChanningBetty Rizzo
    • Jeff ConawayKenickie
    • Barry PearlDoody
    • Michael TucciSonny
    • Kelly WardPutzie
    • Didi ConnFrenchy
    • Jamie DonnellyJan
    • Dinah ManoffMarty Maraschino

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Empire

      It's every bit the great songfest it's hailed as, with bucketloads of innuendo thown in behind some of the most energetic musical numbers ever to grace the inside of a movie theatre.
    • 91

      The A.V. Club

      Grease is a pure pop construct, fueled by movie-star poses, hit songs, and persistent audience fantasies of being an acceptable kind of "bad." Barry Gibb-penned disco theme aside, Grease doesn't really belong to any one era. It's like it's always existed.
    • 90

      Variety

      Grease has got it, from the outstanding animated titles of John Wilson all the way through the rousing finale as John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ride off into teenage happiness.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      GREASE is not really the 1950's teen-age movie musical it thinks it is, but a contemporary fantasy about a 1950's teen-age musical—a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own. It uses the Eisenhower era — the characters, costumes, gestures and particularly, the music—to create a time and place that have less to do with any real 50's than with a kind of show business that is both timeless and old-fashioned, both sentimental and wise. The movie is also terrific fun.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      No revival, however joyously promoted, can conceal the fact that this is just an average musical, pleasant and upbeat and plastic.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Grease works as a musical, a comedy, a light romance, and a gentle satire of teenage life during the '50s. In part because of its persistent high spirits, it's a delight to watch, even 20 years after it first appeared on the screen.
    • 75

      Premiere

      Sandy, Danny, and their sexier counterparts Rizzo and Kenickie are spectacular fun to watch, especially in their non-TV-edited glory. Though it's virtually impossible to forget, and stay quiet during, the film's many songs, it's also surprising to remember all of the racy dialogue and double entendres in the original. Or maybe it's just that we never got them when we were ten.
    • 63

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Grease isn't a four-star musical. It's fluffy and unimportant, and it gets tedious toward the end with the car-racing sequence that Kleiser staged in the paved-in-concrete Los Angeles River. The friskiness of the performers, the choreography by Patricia Birch and most of all Travolta's phenomenal charm give it its value.

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