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.
23 July 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 January 1966, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 October 1951, Union Township, New Jersey, USA
4 December 1963, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
16 October 1962, California, USA
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.
March 25, 2013
Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz.
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.
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.
March 25, 2013
It's the electrifying body-doubled dance numbers that really stick.
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.
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.
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.
April 30, 2009
Flashdance might be considered one of the first signs of Hollywood's Apocalypse.
