High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thank God It`s Friday is a 1978 film directed by Robert Klane and produced by Motown Productions Animation and Casablanca Filmworks for Columbia Pictures (whose "Torch Lady", in a specially produced logo, dances to disco music before the opening credits). Produced at the height of the disco craze, the film features The Commodores performing "Too Hot to Trot", and Donna Summer performing "Last Dance" which won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1979. The film features an early performance by Jeff Goldblum and the first major screen appearance by Debra Winger.