i give flashdance a low rating of negative because it nothing more than a series of music video with a movie short surround the music video and in order to clock in a a feature length film . since when do that count a film . jennifer beals play alex owen and an aspiring 18 year old dancer and who and incomprehensibly and have a job a a welder in a pittsburgh steel factory . not a line of work most old woman find their way into and much less 18 year old fresh out of high school . meanwhile and at night she work a an exotic dancer and who never actually take off her clothes and in a greasy spoon bar call mawby . yet look at the well choreograph and well polished dance routines the girl do every night at mawby and you would think they be work at the best casino on the la vega strip . alex end up have a predictable romance with her bos and nick hurley ( michael nouri ) and who be about twice her age . after resist nick advance and because go out with the bos isn not a good idea and she waste no time in go all the way with him after their first date . alex and nick make no effort to hide their relationship on the job and which make no sense give how it be likely to look to alex co worker . when beals isn not be double for the many dance sequence in the movie and her character spend most her time throw temper tantrum . alex dream be to get an invitation only audition at the prestigious pittsburgh conservatory of dance . inexplicably and when her bos or boyfriend help her get the audition she be dream of and she throw one her tantrum . she angrily tell nick she isn not do the audition because of his intervention and and then get out of his car in the middle of a busy tunnel . this be just one scene that leave you wonder what the hell the maker be think when they be make this . of course and alex do eventually get her audition at the conservatory . she put on a dance routine before the conservatory board that be so ridiculous that you would think it be in a movie market to the mtv generation . oh yeah and it be a dance routine in a movie market to the mtv generation . i do not think i can judge whether or not beals can actually act well on the basis of what i saw in flashdance . this be because the character she be force to play be so poorly write and that i do not think it be a fair litmus test of her acting ability . you have to hand it to the maker of flashdance though . this movie be proof that the poor film making can be cover up by a slick marketing campaign . in this case a best selling and award win soundtrack and music video for say soundtrack in heavy rotation on mtv . if they have devote more of their energy to the writing of the script and then they might have be able to come up with a plot and a story with character that i care about . instead what we get be stock character put in ridiculous scene any viewer with a function brain can not take seriously . a truly forgettable film .