Flashdance
Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.
Plot
Alex Owens is an 18-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, who lives with her male pit bull dog, Grunt, in a converted warehouse. She aspires to become a professional dancer, but has no formal dance training and works as a nightly cabaret performer at Mawby's, a neighborhood bar and grill.
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| author | Joe Eszterhas Thomas Hedley |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Pittsburgh |
| director | Adrian Lyne |
| editor | Bud Smith Walt Mulconery |
| genre | drama romance |
| keywords | assault ballerina breakdancing cabaret performer change of heart dance number date discover even ex-wife figure skater learn los angeles meet one night pit bull retire skate steel mill strip club sudden death train wait weld welder |
| musicBy | Giorgio Moroder |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Film Editing Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay |
| producer | Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer |
| productionCompany | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Pittsburgh |
| theme | art dance musical musical drama romantic drama |