Succinctly the plot:
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real time world no one sees her at all
They all say she's crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
Changing movement into light
She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance
Flashdance stars a doe-eyed and highly charismatic Jennifer Beals as Alexandra "Alex" Owens a recent transplant from Altoona to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania who works as a welder in a steel mill while perusing her dream of professional dancing. A sort of female Saturday Night Fever there is not a lot of plot per say, though there is a slightly creepy romance between Alex and her boss at the mill (Michael Nouri) who is twice her age, as well as a nice assortment of colorful supporting characters. While certain plot elements are trite or ridicules it's got a nice spirit to it and a catchy soundtrack. Not well received by critics when it came out, it still only has a 35% Rotten Tomato's Score, it produced multiple hit songs including the Oscar winning "What a Feeling", and made $201.5 million at the box office off of a $7 million budget. I did not expect to like this but it won me over. ***
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