Background
The film's screenplay was adapted by Aaron Latham and James Bridges from an article in a men's magazine on Western nightlife written by Latham. The movie was directed by Bridges. Some film critics referred to the movie as a country music version of Saturday Night Fever. The film grossed almost $47 million in the United States alone, and recovered Travolta from the flop "Moment by Moment" (1978), but the film was nowhere near as successful as either "Saturday Night Fever" ($94 million) or "Grease" ($188 million).
While filming Urban Cowboy, John Travolta had a private corner at the Westheimer Road location of the Ninfa's restaurant in Houston.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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