Flashdance
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
- Director: Adrian Lyne
- Genre:Drama / Music / Romance
- Runtime:95 minutes
Cast
Jennifer Beals : Alex Owens
Michael Nouri : Nick Hurley
Lilia Skala : Hanna Long
Sunny Johnson : Jeanie Szabo
Kyle T. Heffner: Richie
Blue-collar worker, eighteen year-old Alexandra (Alex) Owens (played by Jennifer Beals) is a dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tavern at night and a welder at a steel mill during the day. She lives by herself in a converted warehouse with her pet dog Grunt. Her aspiration is to become accepted by 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’s best friends also work at Mawby’s, and they have their own aspirations 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 wants 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 accompanied invariably by his strong but unintelligent bodyguard Cecil (Malcolm Danare). Johnny C. visits Mawby’s to see 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. Read more
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