Kyrsten Brad
Senior HTF Member
Well here's one that is actually a Academy Award Winner (Best Song "Last Dance" by Donna Summer) but as yet, no blu-ray has been released. Thank God Its Friday ( referred hereon as TGIF and no relation to the 2011 Katy Perry song "Last Friday Night T.G.I.F) did get a 2006 DVD release (28 years after its theatrical run, probably due to music rights) and the DVD transfer was well done. However the DVD was totally lacking in any extras and the menu was about as bare-bones as you could get while including a menu. You'd have no idea that you were looking at TGIF going by the menu.
I remember TGIF as being the second most successful disco-themed movie of all time (second to Saturday Night Fever). In fact IMHO, given a choice of which movie represents the fun side of the disco phenomenon, I'd pick TGIF in a heartbeat. Fair to say that Saturday Night Fever had more "depth" to it but at times was a little on the depressing side.
TGIF on the other hand was more of a disco-themed comedy consisting of several mini-plots all revolving around the big disco hangout in town, the Zoo Disco (Osko's Nightclub owned by Osko Karagashian was portrayed as The Zoo). My favorite two mini-plots were "Dave & Sue" (Dave played by Mark Lonow and Sue played by Princess Diana look-alike Andrea Howard), the young married couple who, over Dave's objections, check out the Zoo Disco and disco tough-guy Gus (Chuck Sacchi) and his mismatched blind computer date Shirley (Hilary Beane).
That and my other favorite character, Marv Gomez (Chuck Vennera), The Leatherman.
And I have to mention Jackie, the space-case disco freak chick who tried to steal upright Dave.
Sony currently holds the rights and it seems that getting music rights together for a blu release shouldn't be a big problem. If Sony doesn't want to go with it, TGIF would be a good Twilight Time candidate (and I have talked with Nick Redman about maybe getting this movie. No updates on that yet). But here's hoping that we can get a Blu for this one to see the scenes inside the Zoo Disco, and Marya Small's freaky outfit (done years before Easter-egg hair coloring became fashionable).
Wiki Article on TGIF
IMDB Entry on TGIF
I remember TGIF as being the second most successful disco-themed movie of all time (second to Saturday Night Fever). In fact IMHO, given a choice of which movie represents the fun side of the disco phenomenon, I'd pick TGIF in a heartbeat. Fair to say that Saturday Night Fever had more "depth" to it but at times was a little on the depressing side.
TGIF on the other hand was more of a disco-themed comedy consisting of several mini-plots all revolving around the big disco hangout in town, the Zoo Disco (Osko's Nightclub owned by Osko Karagashian was portrayed as The Zoo). My favorite two mini-plots were "Dave & Sue" (Dave played by Mark Lonow and Sue played by Princess Diana look-alike Andrea Howard), the young married couple who, over Dave's objections, check out the Zoo Disco and disco tough-guy Gus (Chuck Sacchi) and his mismatched blind computer date Shirley (Hilary Beane).
That and my other favorite character, Marv Gomez (Chuck Vennera), The Leatherman.
And I have to mention Jackie, the space-case disco freak chick who tried to steal upright Dave.
Sony currently holds the rights and it seems that getting music rights together for a blu release shouldn't be a big problem. If Sony doesn't want to go with it, TGIF would be a good Twilight Time candidate (and I have talked with Nick Redman about maybe getting this movie. No updates on that yet). But here's hoping that we can get a Blu for this one to see the scenes inside the Zoo Disco, and Marya Small's freaky outfit (done years before Easter-egg hair coloring became fashionable).
Wiki Article on TGIF
IMDB Entry on TGIF