The sweet feistiness of Donna Summer as disco hopeful Nicole showed her as a natural actress who could have made it in film had she pursued it with more vigor. Not only is she classically beautiful, but she's got personality and charm to spare. It takes a while for her to get her shot but it's worth the wait.
The film as a whole is the Grand Hotel of disco movies, a comedy focusing on the variety of people who pop into a popular Hollywood disco where D. J. Ray Vitte is the equivalent of doctor Lewis Stone in that Academy Award winning classic. He's trying to get through the night preparing for the Commodores to perform, only interrupted by various setbacks (including Summer) while spinning the records. Summer breaks into "Last Dance" 70 minutes into the film, creating the disco national anthem.
Club owner Jeff Goldblum goes around making passes at the single ladies, and one not so single, the unhappy Andrea Howard, married to square accountant Mark Lonow who begins to have a little too much fun after not wanting to go inside in the first place. There's also the two underage girls desperate to get in no matter how, feisty Chick Vennera who likes to dance on cars, and the young Debra Winger who keeps getting hit on by over polyester clad jerks.
While definitely a time warp, it's a happy one, an old fashioned 30's style film with 70's ideals, and a look back at a free time in American culture but before the crash that resulted from in the 70's. Certainly some of the characters here are unpleasant, and you wouldn't expect anything less from such a setting. Once you get past all those polyester outfits and Dorothy Hamill hairstyles, you will be dragged out onto the dance floor and never want the last dance to end.
The film as a whole is the Grand Hotel of disco movies, a comedy focusing on the variety of people who pop into a popular Hollywood disco where D. J. Ray Vitte is the equivalent of doctor Lewis Stone in that Academy Award winning classic. He's trying to get through the night preparing for the Commodores to perform, only interrupted by various setbacks (including Summer) while spinning the records. Summer breaks into "Last Dance" 70 minutes into the film, creating the disco national anthem.
Club owner Jeff Goldblum goes around making passes at the single ladies, and one not so single, the unhappy Andrea Howard, married to square accountant Mark Lonow who begins to have a little too much fun after not wanting to go inside in the first place. There's also the two underage girls desperate to get in no matter how, feisty Chick Vennera who likes to dance on cars, and the young Debra Winger who keeps getting hit on by over polyester clad jerks.
While definitely a time warp, it's a happy one, an old fashioned 30's style film with 70's ideals, and a look back at a free time in American culture but before the crash that resulted from in the 70's. Certainly some of the characters here are unpleasant, and you wouldn't expect anything less from such a setting. Once you get past all those polyester outfits and Dorothy Hamill hairstyles, you will be dragged out onto the dance floor and never want the last dance to end.