80s cheese with heart

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2015)

Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) is a Pittsburgh steel welder by day and exotic dancer by night at Mawby's Bar. She dreams to be a ballet dancer but is too intimidated to apply. Her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) falls for her. Her friend short order cook Richie (Kyle T. Heffner) wants to be a comic. Jeanie Szabo (Sunny Johnson) wants to be a competitive ice skater. Alex is hounded by Johnny C. (Lee Ving) to strip naked for his club. Jeanie fails as a skater. After Richie goes off to LA, he returns to find Jeanie going out and stripping for Johnny. She finds that Nick helped her get an audition. Her mentor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala) dies. All of it pushes her to go for her dreams.
Lobster has never been sexier. Cynthia Rhodes does a crazy dance and so does Beals' body double. They are all iconic dance scenes. There are some great 80s music. The movie screams 80s cheese but it's even better than that. There are some great scenes. Jeanie's progression is heart breaking. The older dancer (I believe it's Belinda Bauer) does a great speech about dreams fading away. This is not just good 80s cheese. It also has heart.