Flashdance
The life of a young teenager beautiful and talented girl named Alex Owens, who is a talented dancer and admired dancing, as she dreams of becoming a real dancer and joins the ballet school, has been changed completely when she has a chance to join her dream school by the help of her neighbor.
30 July 1963, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
7 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 March 1926, Arkansas, USA
9 December 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 January 1966, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
10 April 1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2 May 1931, Pipestone, Minnesota, USA
9 October 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 May 1926, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
22 April 1933, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
21 October 1952, Utica, New York, USA
7 August 1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
4 December 1963, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
29 January 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 25, 2013
It's the electrifying body-doubled dance numbers that really stick.
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.
March 25, 2013
Punchy, cleverly stylized, but utterly empty.
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
Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz.
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.
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.
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.
December 15, 2010
Cinderella tale with sex, Spandex, and '80s pop.
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.
