nightclub was completely demolished by the early 1990s and was replaced by a large Loehmann's dress store. Release Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 30% rating, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 3.6/10. Roger Ebert rated the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "When you describe it, it sounds like a lot more fun than it is when you see it." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film an identical 1.5-star grade and called it "a disco movie that's little more than a dismal record promotion ... More attention has been paid to the display of records than people." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film was "really a record album with live-action liner notes featuring a dozen young actors, most of whom are quite nice and, as yet, unknown, and a few who are better known but not as impressive as the new people." Canby remarked that Donna Summer, "whose wigs are as elaborate as Diana Ross's, is competition for the superb Miss Ross in no department other than hair." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Donna Summer makes her film debut in a comparatively charming role of an aspiring singer who cons her way to the disco stage and instant stardom. Fact that she is not known as an actress makes the thesping believable. Rest of cast, however, includes many with strong prior credits who are shot down by the Barry Armyran Bernstein script and Robert Klane's direction." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times described the film as a "lively, zany, often crass, sometimes irresponsible but surpassingly good-natured movie," with Summer possessing "an exciting screen presence" if not strong acting abilities. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post panned the film as "90 aimless, alienating minutes" full of "TV sitcom-pilot boors, half-wits and low-lifes" who "don't sustain a glimmer of human interest. When attention shifts back to one character or set of characters previously introduced, you have trouble placing them." In his annual Movie Guide, film critic Leonard Maltin rated this film as a "BOMB". He wrote that it is "perhaps the worst film ever to have won some kind of Academy Award" (for Summer's hit song, Last Dance). Box office The film opened in New York City on May 19, 1978 and grossed $752,000 from 85 theaters in its first week, which made