Film Forum

U.S., 1978
Directed by Randal Kleiser
Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden
Screenplay by Bronté Woodard
Approx. 110 min. DCP.

Grease is the word! Greaser John Travolta and good girl exchange student Olivia Newton-John are a pair of crooning, star-crossed high school sweethearts enjoyin’ some idyllic summer lovin’. But can their relationship survive now that school’s back in session?

Reviews

“GREASE HAS GOT IT, from the outstanding animated titles of John Wilson all the way through the rousing finale as John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John ride off into teenage happiness.”
– Variety

“A sugar-rush of a film.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian