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Elmore City, Oklahoma

Footloose is loosely based on the town of Elmore City, Oklahome. This town had banned dancing since its founding in 1898 in an attempt to decrease the amount of heavy drinking. One advocate of the dancing ban was the Reverend from a close town called Hennepin, Oklahoma named F.R. Johnson. He said, "No good has ever come from a dance. If you have a dance somebody will crash it and they;ll be looking for only two things - women and booze. When boys and girls hold each other, they get sexually aroused. You can believe what you want, but one things leads to another." Because of the ban on dancing, the town never held a prom. In February 1980, the junior class of Elmore City's high school made national news when they requested permission to hold a junior prom and it was granted. The request to overturn the ban in order to hold the prom was met with a 2-2 decision from the school board when school board president Raymond Lee broke the tie with the words, "Let 'em dance."

Footloose is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town in Utah where he begins to live with his mother, aunt, and uncle. Throughout the movie, McCormack is seen attempting to overturn the ban on dancing, which resulted from a deadly accident one night and the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow).

The film is loosely based on actual events that took place in the small, rural, and religious community of Elmore City, Oklahoma.[2]

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Footloose is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It tells the story of Ren McCormack, a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town in Utah where he begins to live with him mother, aunt, and uncle. Throughout the movie, McCormack is seen attempting to overturn the ban on music and dancing that had been placed in the community by the local minister as a result of a deadly accident one night.

The films events are loosely based on events that took place in a small town called Elmore City, Oklahoma, where dancing was banned until students asked for the rule to be overturned so they could dance at their prom.

Critical response[edit]
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert called it "a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. It wants to tell the story of a conflict in a town, it wants to introduce some flashy teenage characters, and part of the time it wants to be a music video."[13] Dave Denby in New York rechristened the film "Schlockdance", writing: "Footloose may be a hit, but it's trash - high powered fodder for the teen market... The only person to come out of the film better off is the smooth-cheeked, pug-nosed Bacon, who gives a cocky but likeable Mr. Cool performance."[14]

Jane Lamacraft reassessed the film for Sight and Sound 's "Forgotten pleasures of the multiplex" feature in 2010, writing "Nearly three decades on, Bacon's vest-clad set-piece dance in a flour mill looks cheesily 1980s, but the rest of Ross's drama wears its age well, real song-and-dance joy for the pre-Glee generation."[15]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 51% based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10.[16] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[17]

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The film received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 51% approval rating from critics, based on 39 reviews. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert called it, "a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly." New York Times Critic said, "Like the rest of today's video-happy teenage entertainments, Footloose doesn't expect to be watched closely or taken seriously. It wants to fill the screen with catch music and pretty kids, and this it certainly accomplishes."

Article Evaluation:

- what is the point of the comparison to the movie "The False Grandmother?" Is this necessary in the article/is it relevant?

- the sentence "she is clever enough manage without being rescued by the huntsman...." needs grammatical improvement

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- the way the plot summary is set up does not make sense, it doesn't seem like it is in any order that makes sense

- the article is neutral, it is mainly just facts there appears to be no bias

- We can add into the introduction how Kaplan's adaptation on "The Story of Grandmother" has classical and contemporary types of music. -