Saturday Night Fever
Directed by John Badham
Written by Norman Wexler
Starring John Travolta
Release Date December 16th, 1977
Has anyone ever noticed how John Travotla’s character, Tony Manero, in Saturday Night Fever eats pizza? It’s an odd question, I know, but as I sat down to watch Saturday Night Fever as the classic on the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast, I noticed that Tony stops for pizza on his way to work during the iconic Staying Alive credits sequence. He orders two slices of pizza, New York Style.
Side note, not important to the anecdote about pizza, the woman who works at the pizza place and effusively greets Tony is none other than John Travolta’s sister, Ann Travolta. John Travolta is one of six children including Ann, Joey, Margaret, Sam, Ellen and Joey Travolta. Again, I know this has nothing to do with the pizza story, you just never hear about John Travolta’s siblings or the fact that he has so many siblings.
Find my full length review at Feast.Media, linked here.
