Jennifer Beals enjoyed the affection of America who fell in love with the fairy tale of a beautiful 18-year-old aspiring dancer who works as a welder by day and an exotic dancer by night and somehow manages to get into the prestigious Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance, maintain her independent convictions, and still have an older boyfriend who’s not her sugar daddy. However the dream ended when everyone found out that despite Beals’ talents and looks that there was a body double used for some of the dancing sequences as if this had never happened before and has not happened since. Beals got a raw deal thereafter and never had a hit as big as Flashdance though you know no one can take away the success she did have and many are never so lucky.
I had forgotten how many hit dance songs were on the film’s soundtrack because they have become so mainstream you can still hear them playing on neutral radio stations that often can be heard in the background of select retailers and office waiting rooms. The film has the distinct glossy style of Director Adrian Lyne and Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer with a screenplay co-written by none other that Joe Eszterhas, who has penned some of the most commercially successful and controversial scripts produced into films in the last 20 years or so. The film was Executive Produced by Peter Gruber and Jon Peters too.
Paramount Home Entertainment’s 40th Anniversary Edition of Flashdance features a vivid 4K Ultra HD DolbyVision high dynamic range widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio presentation that is a vast improvement over the 2002 DVD edition with a solid English DTS HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound mix that presents the music and dance number tunes well enough and lets face it, no one watches “Flashdance” for some great dramatic insight. They watch it to see the underdog triumph over the odds and achieve her dream, to see the dancing and quite frankly for the sex appeal of it all. The film is a fantasy and escapist entertainment and a good one at that.
English and French Language Dolby Surround Soundtrack along with an English Descriptive Audio Track English Captions for the hearing impaired as well as French Language Subtitles as options are also encoded on to both the 4K Ultra HD and Full HD Blu-ray Discs as options. Spanish Language Subtitles are encoded onto the 4K version too. The menus are well rendered and easy to navigate.
Extra value features are detailed as follows and appear on the 1080p Full HD Blu-ray Disc only.
- Filmmaker Focus - Adrian Lyne Interview (HD 5:56)
- The Look of Flashdance (SD 9:12)
- Releasing Flashdance the Phenomenon (SD 8:52)
- Trailer
An insert with a code for a digital copy of the film is also included within the packaging. Flashdance 40th Anniversary Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code is now available at retailers on and offline from Paramount Home Entertainment.
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