Unfortunately, their leader Betty Rizzo (Stockard Channing) is quick to tease the foreigner for her wholesomeness, while pressuring her to drink, smoke and sleep around.ĭuring the course of their final year of school, these seniors find plenty of opportunities to sing and jive (thanks to many musical extravaganzas and an American Bandstand knock-off dance competition), rumble with a rival gang, soup up a car called Greased Lightning (with parts just as hot as their vehicle), bet on and participate in illegal racing, as well as mess around in the back seat (passionate kissing and moaning are depicted, safe-sex practices are considered but abandoned, and one unmarried character suspects she is pregnant.)īy the end of the movie, Sandy needs to decide what’s the worst thing she could do-continue to be who she has always been and lose the one that she wants, or dump her “Sandra Dee” image so she and Danny can go together? Despite the unplanned predicament of her friend, Sandy’s choice is as obvious as the “electrifying” skin-tight spandex pants and off the shoulder shirt she sports during the movie’s closing moments. Meanwhile, she takes refuge in the friendship offered by Frenchy (Didi Conn) and her pals The Pink Ladies. However, instead of letting go, Sandy continues to privately be Hopelessly Devoted to Danny.
The gig is up as soon as their paths cross on the football field of Rydell High. Or at least not until an unexplained change of plans has the blonde beauty relocating to America and serendipitously enrolling in the same school he is attending. Meeting during the Australian lass’s Californian vacation, the naive girl doesn’t realize the dream boy of her Summer Nights is really an experienced womanizer and member of a gang of lowlifes that call themselves The T-Birds. In a classic case of opposites attract, squeaky-clean Sandy Olssen (Newton-John) falls for greasy Danny Zuko (Travolta).
Without the star power to blind and the chart-topping feel-good music to deafen, they are likely to see and hear more sexual innuendo and poor role modeling than they remember from those bygone days. Yet those long ago fans-who now are parents and possibly even grandparents-may be a bit surprised to watch this Broadway musical film-adaptation today. In the summer of 1978, Grease was indeed “the word.” Featuring John Travolta, still sizzling from his previous success in Saturday Night Fever (released in 1977), and heartthrob singer Olivia Newton-John, the show had teens toe-tapping in a retro 50s style while humming along to the catchy tunes.
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