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Grease

1978 · Movie · 110 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer66%as of 2024-10-10
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic70/100as of 2025-08-30

What it is

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr. The movie is based on the 1971 stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The plot follows a greaser, Danny Zuko, and Sandy Olsson, an Australian transfer student, through their summer romance and its aftermath.

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Genres
Romance / Comedy / Music / Drama
Original language
English

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