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Genres:
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Drama /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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Stan Lathan
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Actors:
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Mary Alice,
Guy Davis,
Saundra Santiago,
Shawn Elliott,
Jon Chardiet,
Leon W. Grant,
Robert Taylor,
Jim Borrelli,
Dean Elliott,
Rae Dawn Chong
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)76.5
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Plot Summary:
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Upbeat, lets-put-on-a-show, musical about the wonders of hit music tells the article of Kenny ( Davis), a young hip-travel artist living in the rough slums of the Bronx with his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) and their mother Cora. Kenny dreams of making it illustrious as a disk jockey and playing in the most swank of Manhattan nightclubs, The Roxy. Into their lives comes Tracy (Rae Beginning Chong), a composer and assistant choreographer from New York College who inspires him to judge to persevere in his fantasy while fascination begins to bear between them despite coming from peculiar n... eighborhoods and worlds. Meanwhile, Lee is part of a break-dancing gang faction on dominating the scene of their thoroughfare. The lounge of their friends register Ramon (Jon Chardiet), a graffiti artist unflinching to spread his painting to every tube car in the municipality while dealing with his girlfriend Carmen (Sandra Santaigo). Chollie is a fellow rapper who becomes Kenny's manager after he lands him a gig at a Bronx join as the DJ. Various rap groups, break dancers, and explode singers whom include Us Girls, The Treacherous Three, The Procedure, Rock Brace Company, Spirit Sonic Force & Shango, The Magnificent Dragoon, Untrained York Town Breakers, Furious Five, Tina B., Afrika Bambaataa, Johnny B. Base, etc, see cameo appearances.Read more Less
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Beat Street
For teenagers no more than; a rehash of Saturday Unceasingly Fever (qv) applied to the fashionable fad of break-dancing.
Beat Street
Although it trades in such eighties phenomena as break-dancing, rapping and graffiti, this exploitative teen pic proves only that the "puttin' on a show"formula has changed but since the days of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Director Stan Lathan doggedly attempts to depict the deterioration in which many inner-urban district black Americans are forced to live. But DJ Guy Davis and herald-can artist Jon Chardiet are walking stereotypes and, while the latter's underground railway murder is effectively handled, the past's idyll with upmarket swat Rae Dawn Chong is perfectly unconvincing. In ell to co-producing, Harry Belafonte helped compose the songs.
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