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Bookmark this pageThank God It's Friday (1978)
Director: Robert Klane
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From Time Out Film Guide
Like several other movies that have trodden in the wake of American Graffiti, this evening-in-the-life-of-a-disco uses a largely unknown cast and keeps eight or nine lines of narrative going at once. It also crams in countless plugs for its sponsors, Motown and Casablanca. It's at least as formulary and dumb as it sounds - but it's also very, very funny. The jokes are strictly mainstream, of course, but the fact that most of them are anti-sexist and anti-racist distinctly helps, as does the freshness of the cast. Most commendable of all is the fact that no one feels the need to moralise or get serious in the closing scenes: the running gags keep right on running, and they're strong enough to send you out with a fixed grin.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Klane
Producer: Rob Cohen
Cast: Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn, Chick Vennera, Donna Summer, Ray Vitte, Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger, The Commodores full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 89 mins
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