Inspired by her deep talent in dancing and her dream of becoming a real dancer, Alex Owens, a young teenager talented girl, who struggles against having her livings, as she works as a welder in the day and a dancer in a nightclub, does her best to achieve her dream and once incidents come to climax, as she has a chance to join he TV school dream.
21 October 1952, Utica, New York, USA
29 January 1956, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
30 January 1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
22 April 1933, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
28 November 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
21 September 1953, San Bernardino County, California, USA
7 August 1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
19 December 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 October 1951, Union Township, New Jersey, USA
16 October 1962, California, 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.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.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.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.March 25, 2013
Punchy, cleverly stylized, but utterly empty.December 15, 2010
Cinderella tale with sex, Spandex, and '80s pop.March 25, 2013
It's the electrifying body-doubled dance numbers that really stick.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.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.