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

the film was the pack-professional flop, however has endured to turn into a cult classic. These are the "roller disco" by using emphasis in disco music and extensively-choreographed roller skating sequences. A film's soundtrack was further of a profits, by having numbers of hits including the title track "Xanadu" (which has been featured in the streaming video game Dance Dance Revolution), "Magic", "Suddenly", and "I'm Alive".

Plot summary
Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) occurs as gifted creative person world health organization dreams of fame beyond his job: painting big versions of album covers for record-store window ad. Of these day he is told to paint an album handle using the beautiful woman thereon. This equivalent woman literally diarrhea into him late that day, kisses him, so rollerskates away, & Malone becomes obsessed by using sorting through her. She finds him & identifies herself when Kira (Olivia Newton-John), however might tell him nothing else all about herself.

Malone befriends the has-back-number big band orchestra leader named Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly). Danny misused his muse in the 1940s; Sonny has non eventually uncovered his muse. Kirthe encourages them men to form the partnership & open a nightclub. She lessens enamored using Malone, & this presents the condition because she is actually Terpsichore, the muse of dance. Her parents, a Greek gods Zeus and Hera, call her back to the dateless realm of the gods, however whenever Malone follows & professes his love for her, it agree to let her become using him.

Trivia
This film is dancer Gene Kelly's endure starring role within the motion picture. (He got the minor appearance in the film Action U.S.A. nine years later). Xanadu features his endure dance in film. In that film, Kelly is likewise shown in roller skates during the musical total, the information to a similar routine he performed inside ''It's Only Fair Weather''. Gene Kelly's character Danny McGuire hwhen a equivalent title as Kelly's character inside Cover Girl (1944), starring Rita Hayworth. A title of the film occurs as information to the poem "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge got begun act on this verse form, arranged to exist as of heroic proportions, whenever he was interrupted by the man from Porlock who detained Coleridge long plenty for him to lose his thread when giving to his desk. A verse form was never completed; it may be said that Coleridge experienced "lost his muse." the film contains a short alive sequence by previous Disney animator Don Bluth and his new animation studio. Matt Lattanzi world health organization was to get Oliva-Newton John's married man, & father of her girl Chloe, was the dancer in the film.

Awards and nominations
Golden Raspberry Awards Young Artist Awards