Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures will mark the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Fever” with a special commemorative screening of the director’s cut at select theaters around the country, including Bainbridge Cinemas, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10.

Tickets, $11.25, are on sale.

The 1977 drama, starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney and Barry Miller, tells the tale of 19-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero, a man who lives for Saturday night. In an effort to leave his dead-end job and tough family situation for good, Tony meets Stephanie and the two try to dance their way over the bridge to a better life.

A commercial success upon release, the film was reportedly based upon a 1976 New York Magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night.” Cohn later admitted that he fabricated the whole article. As a recent immigrant, he’d said was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to explore about. The character who became Tony Manero was, in fact, based on a London friend of his.

The film was nevertheless deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The soundtrack remains one of the bestselling motion picture soundtracks of all time.

A sequel, 1983’s “Staying Alive,” also starred Travolta — and was directed by Sylvester Stallone.

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