Urban Cowboy DVD (1980) Reviewed by Almar Haflidason: John Travolta mounts a mechanical bull as he proves himself an "Urban Cowboy" in a country and western music flick that's all gee'd up for DVD.

Film Reviews DVD. ×; Copy Link; Facebook ... prosperous Texans riding the oil boom of the late 1970s), Urban Cowboy scarcely had a reason to exist in 1980, and in 1997 it just seems anachronistic.

On June 6, 1980, Urban Cowboy hit theaters. The film, which stars John Travolta and Debra Winger, follows the trials and tribulations of Bud and Sissy, two regulars at the Texas honky-tonk Gilley ...

Forty years ago, Urban Cowboy’s soundtrack made the genre a pop phenomenon — and paved the way for its modern hitmakers. By Joe Levy Mickey Gilley remembers the moment he fell for the Urban ...

Ponsoldt will co-write “Urban Cowboy” along with Benjamin Percy. The series will dive deeper into the story of Bud and his journey from living on a farm to the big city in 1980s Houston.

In a pop-culture year that’s offered one bronc after another, rein this one in: "Urban Cowboy," the honky-tonk-stirring, line-dancing, soundtrack-selling Western romance that teamed a post ...

Aaron Latham, a screenwriter, journalist and author whose story in Texas Monthly inspired the 1980 smash “Urban Cowboy,” died July 23 in Pennsylvania of complications from Parkinson’s disease.