Flashdance

Jennifer Beals Director: Adrian Lyne Adrian Lyne

Overview

Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala). The film's signature scene is, of course, Alex's water-drenched dance audition, largely performed in long shot by her dance double Marine Jahan. Essentially an old-fashioned backstage yarn, Flashdance was given a contemporary spin by its pulsating, musical score featuring the Oscar-winning Best Song, "Flashdance...What a Feeling," (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara).

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2017
UPC:	0032429256843
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	R
Source:	Paramount
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound]
Time:	1:34:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jennifer Beals	Alex Owens
Michael Nouri	Nick Hurley
Lilia Skala	Hanna Long
Sunny Johnson	Jeanie Szabo
Kyle Heffner	Richie
Belinda Bauer	Katie Hurley
Lee Ving	Johnny C.
Ron Karabatsos	Jake Mawby
Malcom Danare	Cecil
Philip Bruns	Frank Szabo
Micole Mercurio	Rosemary Szabo
Marine Jahan	Dancer for Jennifer Beals
Durga McBroom	Heels
Lucy Lee Flippin	Secretary
Don Brockett	Pete
Cynthia Rhodes	Tina Tech
Stacey Pickren	Margo
Liz Sagal	Sunny
Norman Scott	Normski
Marc Lemberger	Mr. Freeze
Robert Wuhl	Mawby's Regular
Steve Price	Mawby's Regular
Matt Landers	Mawby's Regular
Frank Pesce	Mawby's Regular
Larry John Meyers	Welder #1
Debra Gordon	Dancer at Repertory
Jim McCardle	Ice Rink Official
Ernie Tate	Ice-Rink Official
Bettina Birnbaum	Stripper
Deirdre L. Cowden	Stripper #2
Colin Hamilton	Maitre D'
Tony de Santis	Waiter
Wayne Frost	Actor
Silvester Levay	Conductor

Technical Credits

Joe Eszterhas

Tom Hedley

Adrian Lyne	Director
Jerry Bruckheimer	Producer
Joe Eszterhas	Screenwriter
Peter Guber	Executive Producer
Tom Hedley	Original Story,Screenwriter
Jeffery Hornaday	Choreography
Tom Jacobson	Associate Producer
Michael Kaplan	Costumes/Costume Designer
Silvester Levay	Musical Arrangement
Marvin March	Set Decoration/Design
Dennis Matkosky	Songwriter
Giorgio Moroder	Score Composer
Walt Mulconery	Editor
Lynda Obst	Associate Producer
Jon Peters	Executive Producer
Phil Ramone	Musical Direction/Supervision
Charles Rosen	Production Designer
Michael Sembello	Score Composer
Albert M. Shapiro	Asst. Director
Don Simpson	Producer
Bud Smith	Editor
Jim Webb	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The sleeper hit Flashdance had surprising crossover appeal for a movie that featured strippers and X-rated footsie under the dinner table. In part because of its soundtrack, which became a pop sensation on the strength of Irene Cara's "What a Feeling" and Michael Sembello's "Maniac," the R-rated Flashdance was seen by an untold number of viewers under 17. The glimpses of nudity may have been partly to blame, but more than that, the transformation of Alex Owens from blue-collar welder to legitimate ballet hopeful was the stuff of dreams for teenage girls. Factor in the subplot about a friend trying to make it in ice skating, and this film seems tailor made to be teen wish fulfillment, except for all the time it spends in the nudie bars. Flashdance turned Jennifer Beals into an overnight sensation, her tough cookie with sex appeal image quickly assuming iconic status. Its nearly 95-million-dollar domestic take, steadily buoyed by word-of-mouth during a months-long theatrical engagement, was almost unheard of for an R-rated movie, ranking it the third highest grosser of 1983. The project also became the first hit in the notorious careers of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. The kind of film that's so aggressively formulaic that it bowls over any objections, Flashdance has become fodder for numerous parodies and spawned countless imitators. For whatever reason, it struck a chord, and indeed produced quite a feeling.

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