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Flashdance
Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night, wants to get into ballet school.
7 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 July 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 March 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 April 1933, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
21 November 1956, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2 May 1931, Pipestone, Minnesota, USA
21 September 1953, San Bernardino County, California, USA
13 June 1950, Australia
9 October 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1966, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
4 December 1963, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1926, Arkansas, USA
16 October 1962, California, USA
19 December 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 25, 2013
It's the electrifying body-doubled dance numbers that really stick.
August 11, 2010
Crudely-made in just about every possible way, Flashdance has only nostalgia going for it.
December 15, 2010
Cinderella tale with sex, Spandex, and '80s pop.
August 11, 2014
Director Adrian Lyne caught the post-disco visual mood of the time to win over even the most cynical viewer.
March 25, 2013
Punchy, cleverly stylized, but utterly empty.
January 26, 2006
Depressing to think that this was a huge hit on the back of the Irene Cara hit single, since there's absolutely nothing to it.
August 11, 2014
This spirited rock musical about a young factory worker go-go dancer in Pittsburgh who aspires to be a ballerina is the best kind of adolescent fantasy: colorful, involving and full of leaping, prancing energy.
March 25, 2013
Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz.
October 23, 2004
Jennifer Beals shouldn't feel bad. She is a natural talent, she is fresh and engaging here, and only needs to find an agent with a natural talent for turning down scripts.
August 30, 2004
The story doesn't help Miss Beals either, because she's at her least convincing when having to register any emotion other than rapture.
May 23, 2008
Virtually plotless, exceedingly thin on characterization and sociologically laughable, pic at least lives up to its title by offering an anthology of extraordinarily flashy dance numbers.
April 30, 2009
Flashdance might be considered one of the first signs of Hollywood's Apocalypse.
