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Breakin'
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Overview

User Rating:
4.6/10   1,493 votes
Director:
Joel Silberg
Writers:
Charles Parker (story) &
Allen DeBevoise (story) ...
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Release Date:
4 May 1984 (USA) more
Tagline:
the beat of the streets is... more
Plot:
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Cinematical's Friday Night Double Feature: The Muscle From Brussels (From Cinematical. 12 September 2008, 5:02 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Good..for what it is! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Lucinda Dickey ... Kelly

Adolfo Quinones ... Ozone (as Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quinones)
Michael Chambers ... Turbo (as Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers)
Ben Lokey ... Franco

Christopher McDonald ... James
Phineas Newborn III ... Adam
Bruno Falcon ... Electro Rock 1 (as 'Bruno Pop N' Taco' Falcon)
Timothy Solomon ... Electro Rock 2 (as Timothy 'Poppin' Pete' Solomon)
Ana Sánchez ... Electro Rock 3 (as Ana 'Lollipop' Sanchez)

Ice-T ... Rap Talker (as Ice T)
Peter Bromilow ... Judge
Eleanor Zee ... Judge
Scott Cooper ... Judge
Ed Lottimer ... Judge's Assistant (as Eb Lottimer)
Teresa Kelly ... Vicky (as T.C. Laughlin)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Breakdance (Philippines: English title)
Breakdance: The Movie (Europe: English title)
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Trivia:
Though the end credits never reveal it, Ozone and Turbo's real names are Orlando and Tony, respectively. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Towards the end of the movie when Kelly and Ozone are arguing at Venice Beach, the last shot of that scene as they are walking away; Ozone says, "I want to show you what real dancing is about." You can see that Ozone's lips don't move, but you can still hear him say something. more
Quotes:
Ozone: FOOL! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Roseanne Show: (#1.26)" (1998) more
Soundtrack:
Breakin'... There's No Stoppin' Us more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Good..for what it is!, 25 January 2003
Author: lee nicholson (leeio2002@yahoo.co.uk) from middlesbrough, england

OK, so it's no Oscar winner, and it's plot does'nt run rings round THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, but for all it's faults (and they are many!) BREAKIN (breakdance in the UK) is good, slightly corny fun, for all those who tried to spin on their heads in the early eighties. LUCINDA DICKEY (a CANNON regular, check her out in NINJA 3;THE DOMINATION!)) plays Kelly, struggling dancer/waitress, who dreams of appearing in a big musical. She is introduced to two 'break'dancers (OZONE and TURBO) by her (very homosexual) dancing partner (replete with pink gear and camp looks to camera) And even though the dance fraternity pour scorn on a classicly trained dancer melding her style with 'ghetto' dancing, Kelly, Turbo and Ozone take on the bigwigs, and prove that dancing (of any origin) is universal. BREAKIN was released by GOLAN/GLOBUS, who imedietly rushed out a sequel (BREAKIN 2; ELECTRIC BOOGALOO) the same year (the sequel is pretty sh*t, by the way!) and for sheer 'BREAK' dancing, BEAT STREET wins hands down. BREAKIN, involves more 'body-poppin', than actual break dancing. Nonetheless, the movie is light enough, free of the pretension that sunk FLASHDANCE, and has a very good soundtrack, including "aint nobody" and "tour de France" add to that, a young(ish) ICE T cameo.....AND if you can spot him, a young JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME, dancing in the background in the opening sequence in venice beach (clue; he's wearing a similar all-in-one black body suit, that he wore in LIONHEART (aka AWOL in UK) A good solid movie/time capsual/soundtrack/laugh/innofensive family movie 10 out of 10

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