Awful

Rating: 2/10 (18 March 2012)

MTV started making music videos into a popular format to advance the careers of musicians of little or no talent such as Madonna, etc. The trend then unfortunately was discovered by Hollywood. The hybrid result is the 95 minute eyesore known as Flashdance.
Alex(Jennifer Beals) is a welder at a steel mill, complete with hard hat for authenticity, during the daytime and at night she is a dancer of yet undiscovered natural grace and ability. She lives alone with her dog, Grunt; I am not making this up. Oh, and by the way, she has been accepted into a prestigious dance academy, how could I forget. It only gets worse. Here comes the father figure, Nick(Michael Nouri), her boss at the steel plant, happens to see her performing what looks like a semi erotic number on stage at a local club. Nick gets horny for his young employee. He and his ex wife fight over his new youthful trophy girlfriend, Alex. More stupidity follows and my only advice is to avoid this long form video and read a book instead.