Footloose Movie Musical Remake Now Streams Free

The film is a remake of the original 1984 movie of the same name, which follows a young man moving from Boston to a small Southern town and protests the town's ban on dancing. 

The original movie was later made into a Broadway musical in 1998 starring Jennifer Laura Thompson, Hunter Foster, and Dee Hoty among others. It was a success, running at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre for more than 700 performances and eventually being produced all around the world by amateur groups.

The 2011 film is produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, and MTV Films. It was distributed to theaters by Paramount Pictures and was a box office success, further fueling the show's successful amateur licensing deals around the country.

Footloose is now streaming for free in the US and Canada through Pluto TV. The film is expected to remain on the platform until May 15th, 2023, and can be streamed both online and through supported streaming devices with the Pluto TV app.

In his Variety review of the film, Rob Nelson said: "Paramount’s “Footloose” reboot never quite cuts loose enough to distinguish itself from the original. Treating the 1984 hit as a kind of sacred text, co-writer/director Craig Brewer — having irreverently helmed “Hustle & Flow” and “Black Snake Moan” — merely goes through the motions of updating the toe-tappin’ tale of small-town high schoolers driven to dance despite the local minister’s fire-and-brimstone rules against stepping out in public. Sneaked two weeks in advance by an evidently confident Par, the mid-October release stands to play marginally better among current kids than former ones, who’ve almost literally seen it before — and with peppier actors."