Xanadu (film)

Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John (fresh from her role in Grease), Michael Beck and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, ELO, UK pop idol Cliff Richard, and the San Francisco-based art-rock band "The Tubes". The film's tagline is "A fantasy. A musical. A place where dreams come true."

Plot summary

Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) is a talented artist who dreams of fame beyond his job: painting larger versions of album covers for record-store window advertisements. One day he is told to paint an album cover with a beautiful woman on it. This same woman literally runs into him later that day, kisses him, then rollerskates away, and Malone becomes obsessed with finding her. She finds him and identifies herself as Kira (Olivia Newton-John), but will tell him nothing else about herself.

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Malone befriends a has-been big band orchestra leader named Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly). Danny lost his muse in the 1940s; Sonny has not yet found his muse. Kira encourages the two men to form a partnership and open a nightclub. She falls in love with Malone, and this presents a problem because she is actually Terpsichore, the muse of dance. Her parents, the Greek gods Zeus and Hera, call her back to the timeless realm of the gods, but when Malone follows and professes his love for her, they agree to let her be with him.

Related Topics:
Big band - 1940s - Nightclub - Terpsichore - Muse - Greek gods - Zeus - Hera

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