Flashdance is a 1983 movie that was produced by Adrian Lyne. It stars Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri.
Flashdance tells the story of blue collar worker Alex (played by Beals), a girl who dreams of joining an upscale dancing school, while working as a dancer in a gentlemen's club at night, and in a construction site as a builder during the day.
Alex meets her construction company boss, played by Nouri, and they quickly fall in love. Meanwhile, she keeps practicing hard, waiting for her opportunity to join a school to come up. When it finally does, she is rejected, but she refuses to give up, and, with the help of her boyfriend, she is given a second chance.
Alex trains even harder, and then, she is given a second chance, and after a long dancing routine, she gets accepted to the school, marking what would be be beginning of a successful career in non sensual dancing.
This movie has been considered a 1980s Hollywood classic by many.
It's soundtrack included Giorgio Moroder's smash hit Flashdance... What a Feeling (sung by Irene Cara), as well as other hits, such as Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky's She's A Maniac.
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