One can point to it as a catalyst for fashion, music and-yes-even dance styles, but it isn't an enduring movie. if only to remind us to stay away from teal, hairspray and copious amounts of blow.įlashdance is not an enduring movie. Still, we're happy the cultural phenomenon has been DVD'ed. Although the back of the box says "Special Features Not Rated," there are none to be found, unless you consider Widescreen and Dolby Digital special. ![]() Fans on the film will be delighted, until they realize that the disc contains the movie and the movie alone. The film, of course, is Flashdance, and it's finally out on DVD. It took the fitness look that Olivia Newton-John started with "Let's Get Physical" and pushed it over the top. It co-conspired with Fame to make hordes of women don wooly legwarmers and prance about town with ripped sweatshirts hanging off one shoulder. This unassuming (well, maybe a little assuming) steel worker split her time between the mill and the local nudie (well, almost nudie) bar, expressing herself and trying to make it all the way to the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music. ![]() Long before Showgirls' Naomi danced at the Cheetah, there was another exotic dancer who yearned to make it big: Alex Owens.
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