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Breakin'
Sign in to save'''''Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84''''' in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife about dancer Alysha Williams.
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6.7A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Cast
- Lucinda Dickey as Kelly / Special K
- Adolfo Quinones as Ozone
- Michael Chambers as Turbo
- Ben Lokey as Franco
- Christopher McDonald as James
- Phineas Newborn III as Adam
Themes
- dancing
- rap music
- hip-hop
- street gang
- breakdance
- ghetto
- dance battle
- spandex
- breakdancing
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Breakin'
- Film.image
- Breakin' movie poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Joel Silberg
- Film.cinematography
- Hanania Baer
- Film.distributor
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- Film.runtime
- 87 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $1.2 million
- Film.gross
- $38.7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 578078
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- publication date
- 1984-07-06
- title
- Breakin'
- review score
- 33%
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17 sectionsContents
- Plot
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- Production
- Music
- Soundtrack
- Track listing
- Weekly charts
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- Release
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- Reception
- Box office
- Critical response
- In popular culture
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
'''''Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84''''' in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife about dancer Alysha Williams.
The film's setting was inspired by a 1983 documentary titled ''Breakin' 'n' Enterin', set in the multi-racial hip hop club Radio-Tron, based out of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Many of the artists and dancers from that documentary, including Ice-T (who makes his film debut as a club MC), and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, went straight from Breakin' 'n' Enterin' to star in Breakin'''.