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flashdance

Flashdance is a musical and romance film released in April 1983, and was one of the most successful films of the early 1980s. The film was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and its presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s films including Top Gun, the most famous of Simpson and Bruckheimer's films.

The film tells the story of blue-collar worker Alexandra (Alex) Owens, played by Jennifer Beals. Alex works as an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar at night and at a steel mill as a welder during the day. Her dream is to obtain a place at a prestigious dance school, the (fictional) Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance and Repertory. During one of her performances at Mawby's, the bar where she works, she attracts the attention of Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) who is the boss of the steel mill, and he learns that Alex is one of his employees. Alex is 18 years old and she lives on her own in a converted warehouse with her pit bull dog Grunt.

Alex's best friends also work at Mawby's and they have their own dreams of fame. Jeanie Szabo (Sunny Johnson) is a waitress who aspires to be a professional ice skater and Jeanie's boyfriend Richie Blazik (Kyle T. Heffner) is a cook who aspires to be a professional stand-up comedian. Also prominent in the film is Johnny C. (Lee Ving) who runs the local strip club, the Zanzibar, and is invariably accompanied by his strong but dense bodyguard Cecil (Malcolm Danare). Johnny C. visits Mawby's to check out the dancers and tries to recruit both Alex and Jeanie to work at the Zanzibar.

Alex goes to the Conservatory to ask for an application form for an audition, but walks out when she realizes that she lacks any formal dance training and will have to leave that section of the form blank. Alex's dance teacher and mentor is a retired ballet dancer named Hanna Long (Lilia Skala) who encourages Alex to pursue her dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer. After Jeanie falls over twice at an audition for an ice show, she loses confidence in herself and becomes a dancer at the Zanzibar, where she performs in the nude, and Alex goes to the strip club to rescue Jeanie.

Alex and Nick become lovers and she learns that he has an ex-wife called Katie (Belinda Bauer), and they have a frosty meeting in a local restaurant. Nick uses his contacts to secure an audition for Alex at the Conservatory, and just before the audition she goes to Hanna's house and learns that she died the previous night.

At the audition, Alex falls over at the start of her routine, but starts again and completes the routine successfully. In the final scene, Alex runs out of the Conservatory building with a smile on her face and is hugged by Nick, who gives her a bunch of red roses. The ending of the film does not say directly whether Alex wins a place at the Conservatory as a result of her audition.

"Flashdance... What a Feeling" was performed by Irene Cara, who also sang the title song for the similar 1980 film Fame. The music for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" was composed by Giorgio Moroder, and the lyrics were written by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara. The song won an Academy Award for Best Song, as well as a Golden Globe and numerous other awards. It also reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1983. Despite the song's title, the word "Flashdance" is not used in the lyrics. The song is used in the opening title sequence of the film, and is the music used by Alex in her dance audition routine at the end of the film.

Taken from Wikipedia

cast

Jennifer Beals - Alex Owens
Michael Nouri - Nick Hurley
Lilia Skala - Hanna Long
Sunny Johnson - Jeanie Szabo
Kyle T. Heffner - Richie
Lee Ving - Johnny C.
Ron Karabatsos - Jake Mawby
Belinda Bauer - Katie Hurley
Malcolm Danare - Cecil
Phil Bruns - Frank Szabo
Micole Mercurio - Rosemary Szabo
Lucy Lee Flippin - Secretary
Don Brockett - Pete
Jumbo Red - Grunt

what a feeling

Name: What A Feeling
Subject: Flashdance
Category: Movies
Opened: 18th November 2007
Owner: Jo
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