Flashdance (1983)

BAMF April Cinema Journey (52 movies items)

" A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school. I have been hearing of this movie for many years and so now I decided to watch it. I am only familiar with Jennifer Beals. That is one adorable Pitbull aww! So it was a bit slow and mostly boring. Some of the dances were interesting and unique though. The acting was also pretty good. It just wasn't my kind of movie."

Films and the critics who hate them (732 movies items)

"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. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times An utterly preposterous piece of Reagan-era bootstrapping propaganda. - Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies "

Films Nominated/Won an Oscar and Razzie (62 movies items)

"Oscar Wins Best Music, Original Song "Flashdance...What a Feeling." Oscar Nominations Best Cinematography Best Film Editing Best Music, Original Song "Maniac" Razzie Nominations Worst Screenplay"

"That is my fav scene I am a big Flashdance fan."

“I love flashdance it is a cool 80s film, lot of good dancing and mucis, out of all the 80's movies this is my fav.” read more

Phillydude's Movie Log - Spring, 2013 (33 movies items)

"Release Date - April 15th, 1983 Box Office Gross - $94,900,000 Watched March 10th - HDNet Movies - Rewatch "Don't you understand - when you give up your dream, you die." - Nick Hurley Flashdance started the trend of dancing movies in the 80's, which included Footloose and Dirty Dancing, but this is still my favorite of all of them - The movie is best known for its music and dancing, as well as music video style editing and while I really enjoyed that part of the movie, I also liked the st"

“Flashdance I do enjoy the music is good the dancing is good, the storyline however is a little off beat. A young woman is a Steel worker by day, dirty dancer by night and her dream is to be a ballerina. Then on top of that the love story, if they kept it to the dancing, it might have been a bit better. The movie is what I call a chick flick for a sunday afternoon or a rainy day film. Non the less if you like good dancing, and 80's music then you will like this one.” read more

Academy Award for Best Cinematography: 1980's (51 movies items)

"Don Peterman "

My Top 80's Flicks (25 movies items)

"The story was a bit dogy, but the music and dancing made up for it."

Academy Award for Best Original Song (62 movies items)

""Flashdance... What a Feeling" -Writers and Composers: Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara -Performed by Irene Cara (Won) "