Flashdance
Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night, wants to get into ballet school.
22 April 1933, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
7 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 December 1963, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
29 January 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 March 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 May 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
It's the electrifying body-doubled dance numbers that really stick.
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.
December 15, 2010
Cinderella tale with sex, Spandex, and '80s pop.
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.
April 30, 2009
Flashdance might be considered one of the first signs of Hollywood's Apocalypse.
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.
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.
August 11, 2010
Crudely-made in just about every possible way, Flashdance has only nostalgia going for it.
March 25, 2013
Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz.
March 25, 2013
Punchy, cleverly stylized, but utterly empty.
