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So, if Footloose came out in 84 (which, uncoincidentally, it did), and people are in fifth grade at ten (this I have less surety of), then you'd probably have to be born no earlier than 74 to have this opportunity. With adjustments for academic years, yadda yadda.
Jesse, how young are you? Also, keep off the lawn.
I was born in 73, and was in 5th grade in 83-84.
I suck at school year math.
Christ. Another person younger than my sister. You must all die.
Unless you're hot guys, in which case you can atone by dating me.
Strangely enough, St. Elmo's Fire is playing here at work. Good times.
I'm not actually all that young, you know. I mean, younger than Jesus, but not by much.
There are people posting in this very thread who were barely alive when Footloose came out.
...and also people who received their college degrees while the title song and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" were on the charts....
I was around 17 when Footloose came out. I'm not a huge Kevin Bacon fangirl, but I have to admit watching him shake his ass in this movie was somewhat formative.
I was one year old. Maybe a bit younger. Great film though. I'm glad I saw it before Kevin Bacon and general creepiness became forever linked in my brain.
I'm not a huge Kevin Bacon fangirl, but I have to admit watching him shake his ass in this movie was somewhat formative.
I'm a year older than Calli, but oh, my, yes--I would have to agree with this statement!
Footloose was my go-to movie for telling my parents that's what we were seeing when we were sneaking into something R rated. I think that worked for The Terminator. Possibly also Up a Creek, which one of my friends tried to analyze as a continuation of Shakespearean tropes.