Grease first hit the screens in June 1978 in film directed by Randal Kleiser and starred John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway and Stockard Channing. The film and score was based on the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical, Grease. The film was re-released in March 1998 as the 20th Anniversary Edition although it was not until September 2002 that it had its DVD release.