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Flashdance (1983) 6.1
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Reviews: 124 user | 49 critic | 9 from Metacritic.com A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school. Director:Adrian LyneWriters:Thomas Hedley Jr. (screenplay) (as Tom Hedley) , Joe Eszterhas (screenplay), 1 more credit » |
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Cast
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| Jennifer Beals | ... | ||
| Michael Nouri | ... | ||
| Lilia Skala | ... | ||
| Sunny Johnson | ... | ||
| Kyle T. Heffner | ... | ||
| Lee Ving | ... | ||
| Ron Karabatsos | ... | ||
| Belinda Bauer | ... | ||
| Malcolm Danare | ... | ||
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Philip Bruns | ... |
Frank Szabo
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| Micole Mercurio | ... | ||
| Lucy Lee Flippin | ... |
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Durga McBroom | ... | |
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Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling! Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
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What a feeling. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 April 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Electrodanza See more »Box Office
Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$94,900,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Color:
ColorAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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By Tomaso Albinoni (as Albinoni)
Arranged and Conducted by Lee Holdridge
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Courtesy of Varèse Sarabande Records
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Paramount Pictures gave production rights to the original script for the film to Don Simpson after he was fired from his executive job with the studio, and many observers felt Paramount deliberately gave him a terrible property in hopes he would fail and his career would be ruined. In addition, Paramount had so little faith in the box office potential of the film that they sold off 25% of the project days before it opened. See more »Goofs
In the restaurant scene where Alex is eating lobster, her nails are painted red. In the following scene (later that night) where she is playing with Nick's watch in bed, her nails are unpainted. See more »Soundtracks
Adagio for StringsBy Tomaso Albinoni (as Albinoni)
Arranged and Conducted by Lee Holdridge
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
Courtesy of Varèse Sarabande Records
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Although I've long known, generally speaking, what this movie is about, I never saw it when it came out in 1983 or 1984, because I was too busy "living" the 80's (yeah, right, whatever that means!). But I just saw it recently, in its entirety, the other night on TV.
I don't know, maybe it's the current sorry state of affairs of the world today that made me want to watch this film, just so I could revisit the "happy days(?)" of the eighties, when, although the world was also in a sorry state of affairs, at least there was an underlying pretense of hope and glory, a pervasive (albeit childlike) adherence to the belief that wishes DO sometimes come true, miracles CAN happen, and for every ugly frog there IS a beautiful princess waiting to kiss him...
This movie sucks, bigtime... but it also rocks! And that, people, is the honest to God truth. This movie is so bad it reeks of the stench of the very phoney-baloney on which it is based (and we all know how awful THAT is). BUT, it also rocks you to your very soul, and hey, how can you possibly fault a movie that dares to offer people (and not just young people, but ALL people) that little thing called HOPE???
I hope you don't take my "critique" the wrong way... Honestly, I don't think the movie is really all that good, but the message, and the feeling, and the spirit of this movie, are all very wonderful and infectious indeed and should NOT be discounted. It makes it a wonderful movie. Strange, isn't it? If those of you reading this are parents with up-and-coming kids, make them sit through this film!! Make them watch it!! I guarantee you, at least there is not a single scene in it where some teenager just HAS to have sex with a baked pastry object!!
Finally, let me comment on the fact that many in filmdom have dissed Jennifer Beals over the fact that a stand-in dancer performed various or several of her dance segments. Well let me just mention, that at the very end of the film, in the credit roll, there is a disclaimer that states: "The people and events in this film are fictional. Any similarity to actual people or events is unintentional." So, with this in mind… a stunt double performed some of the dance steps!?? I was shocked, shocked to find that stunt doubles are used in Hollywood!!