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- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Directed By: Stan Lathan
Written By: Steven Hager, Andrew Davis, David Gilbert, Paul Golding
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1984
- PG
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Beat Street
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Summary An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Directed By: Stan Lathan
Written By: Steven Hager, Andrew Davis, David Gilbert, Paul Golding
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Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
68
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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An upbeat, thoroughly entertaining street film about an entertainment revolution in the depressed South Bronx, featuring break dancing, graffiti art and record mixing. A black and Puerto Rican version of Saturday Night Fever. [08 June 1984, p.12]
The music is electric on Beat Street, a good-natured, emotional movie, where morals are as sound as they were in the mom's-in-the-kitchen, dad's-in-insurance sitcoms of the '50s and '60s.
Designed for everybody who still hasn't had his or her fill of break dancing, or who doesn't yet understand that break dancing, rap singing and graffiti are legitimate expressions of the urban artistic impulse.
This energetic hip-hop musical barely supplements the large-scale musical numbers with its cliched plot, but it does capture a sense of the break-dancing craze and is more entertaining than most of the films made to cash in on that trend.
Pretty bland, but you have to admit co-producer Belafonte had an eye for talent, spotlighting HipHop legends-in-the-making Afrika Bambaata and the Soul Sonic Force, the Rock Steady Crew, and Grand Master Melle Mel and The Furious Five.
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Production Company
Orion Pictures
Release Date Jun 8, 1984
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG
Tagline Get down, brother, shuffle those feet, shake a little boogie to the sound of that beat.
