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Staying Alive (1983)
★ 5.8 · 491 ratings on TMDB
Tony Manero knows the old days are over. But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again.
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
DirectorSylvester Stallone
The emergence reading
Staying Alive keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
