Haven’t made any Friday night plans yet? What’s wrong, you holding out for a hero? Why not cut loose at Cheer Up Charlie’s tonight? Because – and we don’t want to oversell the thing – this sounds like almost paradise.

After you hit the early show at aGLIFF (we dug The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister), you might want to scoot on over to Cheer Up Charlie’s, which will be playing host to – get this – Our Footloose Remake, a crowdsourced homage/parody/we-don’t-even-know-what to the indisputably awesome Eighties artifact Footloose.

So: 55 directors, shooting their own idiosyncratic remakes of Footloose, scene to scene, starring puppets, animated Rens, and live-action humans, too. Post-show, the watching party becomes a dance party.

You know what that means, right? People are totally going to be kicking off their Sunday shoes.

“Our Footloose Remake” Trailer from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

This article appears in September 10 • 2010.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...