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Dean Pitchford wrote the screenplay for the film and Herbert Ross directed. Paramount Pictures co-produced and distributed the film. Footloose also starred Lori Singer as Reverend Moore's independent daughter Ariel and Dianne Wiest as the Reverend's devoted yet sympathetic wife. Footloose is one of the earliest film appearances of Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker for which she was nominated for Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama at the Sixth Annual Youth in Film Awards.

Two songs from the movie, Footloose and Let's Hear It for the Boy, received 1985 Academy Award nominations for Best Music (Original Song)Academy Award for Best Song 1930s 1934 Con Conrad (music), Herb Magidson (lyrics) "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee Vincent Youmans (music), Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn (lyrics) "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio Ralph Rainger (music), Leo Robin (lyrics). The song Footloose also received a 1985 Golden Globe AwardThe Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the awards are often regarded as the third most publiciz nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.

There is a soundtrackGenerally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture. In terms of film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. The term soundtrack is also commonly used to refer to of the music from the film released and is available in compact discCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a st format. The film was later released in VHSThe Video Home System better known by its acronym VHS is the recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC and launched in 1976. It became a standard format for consumer recording and viewing in the 1980s after compe, LaserdiscLaserdisc was the first optical disc storage medium, and was used primarily for the presentation of movies. During its development, the format was referred to as the "Optical Videodisc System" before MCA, who owned the patent on the technology, re-named t and DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto formats.