Product: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Rating: 5.0
Dancing in Heaven
well I would rate this higher if the stars had allowed.This is the story of Janey Glenn (parker) who tries out for a dance contest after watching dance tv, who are looking for a new couple to star on there show, Janey and her friend Lynne stone (Helen Hunt), both try out but lynne doesn't make it, cause Natalie (Holly Gayniar?) Pays out her partner to ruin her chances, but Janey does and is paired up with Jeff Melane (Lee Montgomery), at first the two don't connect. In the meantime Natalie learns that Janey doesn't have permission to be out of school and calls her father to say she's not in choir practice, so Lynne and Janey have to act fast by pretending Janey almost spun to death in Gymnastics try-outs. Janey and Lynne find out that Natalie is having a ball, so they distribute flyers to social deliquents, punks and outcasts who gatecrash the ball. Natalie Declares war; for the time being Romance developes between Janey and Jeff, there Dancing becomes co-ordinated and their screen chemistry is dynamite, feel good, she sneaks out to dance and be with Jeff as they prepare for the contest, all falls apart when Jeff runs into Jp Sands, Natalies father who says he could put Jeff's dads job on the line if he dances in the contest, Janey and Jeff have an argument, then She gets caught sneaking into her home, setting off the alarm, she is grounded. Jeff talks with his dad who encourages him to continue in the contest anyway saying he'll worry about Jp Sands, the moral is that Janey and Jeff dance in the contest, they win, becoming the new dance tv regulars, Natalie sulks, Lynne becomes the New Miss Dance Tv. Happy ending.This is a feel-good chick flick, full of music, dance, romance, a good cast, well worth the watch, even to gogle at Lee Montgomery who is hot and sexy, also to see Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt and Shannon doherty in their earlier roles.When I watch this movie, I imagine being Janey and wish I was with Jeff in that time, Dancing on dtv and having lynne stone as my best friend. There are a few websites dedicated to this Movie and the Soundtrack is well worth purchasing also the best place being ebay, if you cannot purchase this soundtrack here on Amazon, contact thomas.sillifant@virgin.net, the sountrack to this movie includes the songs:1)Come On Shout2)On The Loose3)I can Fly4)Dancing In Heaven5)Girls Just want to have Fun6)Dancing in the street7)Too cruel8)Technique9)Wake Up The NeighbourhoodThe soundtrack contains versions from the movie not the original artists, apart from a newer version of this soundtrack that contains a couple of Cyndi Lauper dance mixs and two songs by Cyndi Lauper from the Goonies Movie.