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Beat Street (1984) 5.9
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. Director:Stan Lathan |
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Tracy Carlson
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Guy Davis | ... |
Kenny 'Double K' Kirkland
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Jon Chardiet | ... |
Ramon
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Leon W. Grant | ... |
Chollie
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Carmen Cararro
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Robert Taylor | ... |
Lee Kirkland
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Cora
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Domingo
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Jim Borrelli | ... |
Monte
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Dean Elliott | ... |
Henri
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Luis
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Angela
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Lee Chamberlin | ... |
Alicia
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Antonia Rey | ... |
Flora
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Duane Jones | ... |
Robert
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An upbeat, lets-put-on-a-show musical about the wonders of hip-hop music and culture that tells the story of Kenny, a young hip-hop artist living in the rough slums of the Bronx with his younger brother Lee and their mother Cora. Kenny dreams of making it big as a disc jockey and playing in the most swank of Manhattan nightclubs, the Roxy. Into their lives comes Tracy, a composer and assistant choreographer from the City College of New York, who inspires him to try to continue his dream while romance begins to grow between them, despite coming from different neighborhoods and worlds. Meanwhile, Lee is part of a break-dancing crew set on dominating the scene of their street. The rest of their friends include Ramon, a graffiti artist determined to spread his painting to every subway car in the city while dealing with his girlfriend Carmen and Chollie, a fellow disc jockey who becomes Kenny's manager after he lands him a gig at a Bronx club. Many hip-hop groups, electro artists, break ... Written by Matt Patay
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 June 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Loucura do Ritmo See more »Filming Locations:
Fresh Pond Road Train Station, Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, New York, USA See more »Company Credits
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About 80% of the footage in the original theatrical trailer is not included in the final cut. Examples include Ramón getting his bag ripped off while walking with Kenny and Charlie, several battle outtakes including the classroom up-rocking scene, Ramón on a set of drums, and one dancer flipping off against a wall at the Burning Spear nightclub. Several other pieces of footage were included as well but were in freeze frame in the opening credits of the film. The trailer also includes an alternate version of title song performed by Kool Moe Dee, (who appears in the film in the "Christmas Rappin'" sequence with the rest of the Treacherous Three), which also did not appear in the movie nor on the original soundtrack albums. See more »Goofs
When Spit tags over Ramo's burner with the Dyer Ave train, you can see the "Sp" in "Spit" from a previous take. See more »Quotes
Ramon: [quoting his father] "When are you going to stop writing on the walls and make some money, when are you going to stop tagging the subway cars, when are you going to make your son legitimate... legitimate shit."See more »
Cinematically, this film stinks. So does a lot of the acting. But I
don't care. If there is a strong representation of what the 80's were
like(For a lot of us in the innercity anyways) and what hip-hop, Zulu
nation, and break dancing were really like.Great music, great
dancing! It almost seems like a documentary of a time now past
when hip-hop was a way of life. It's also interesting to see New
York looking like ground zero from a nuclear attack. Some viewers
may be too young to remember that It was a poor, run down city
during the 70's and 80's. This is the best of all the hip-hop/break
dancing movies that came out around that period. Of course the
80's are considered a joke now with all the bad tv shows and
movies, but those of us who lived through it will always remember
it fondly for a time when music, dancing, and graffiti were fresh, yo!