Movie
1980
Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by James Bridges, based on the 1978 Esquire article "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy" by Aaron Latham. The film takes place in Pasadena, Texas, and follows the turbulent marriage between young blue-collar couple Buford "Bud" Davis and Sissy. Their conflicts unfold against the country-western nightlife of Gilley's Club, a large honky-tonk where…
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John Travolta became a star thanks to his role in *Saturday Night Fever*, in which he played a working class youth trying to escape daytime drudgery by enthusiastically embracing nightlife. Three years later he played very similar character in *Urban Cowboy*, 1980 drama directed by James Bridges. Travolta plays Bud Davis, young man from small Texas town who comes to Houston to start working at oil refinery. He got t…More
