Saturday NIGHT Fever is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by John Badham. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a working-class young man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local Brooklyn discothèque. The film's soundtrack, featuring disco songs including the Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive', propelled the movie to become a cultural phenomenon and one of the highest-grossing films of the year.