Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25155 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-11
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 83 minutes

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Cast/Crew Biographies
Hip Hop Timeline
How To Breakdance
Photo Gallery
B-boy Battle Score Sheet

English Language, Dolby Digital Sound
Screen Format 4:3

Synopsis
In this 1980s classic, a struggling jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) teams up with two hot breakdancers (Adolfo Quinones and Michael Chambers) in an attempt to win a big-time dance competition. The music score features the hits "Breakin'...There's No Stoppin Us," and "Freakshow on the Dance Floor." BREAKIN' also features Ice-T's screen debut.

From the Back Cover
Spinning, gliding, and flying across America like a half-mad tornado, a new form of street dancing rose from the core of the nations inner cities in the 1980s, and spread to street corners, shopping malls and schoolyards everywhere! Breakin' revolves around Kelly, a young lady who aspires to be a dancer and is working her way through dance school to make it happen. However, she soon becomes tired of the stuffy, boring styles of dancing taught at the school. When a friend introduces her to the local breakdancing scene, she realizes she has found her calling as a dancer.

Kelly befriends Ozone and Turbo, two of the best street dancers on the scene, and is renamed "Special K". Together, the trio takes on the established dance world by using a big-time dance competition as a chance to show the dance school teachers that their self-taught moves are just as graceful and vital to the dance world as anything the school could teach. This groundbreaking film remains one of the most popular films of the 1980s and thanks to a whole host of classic tunes and unforgettable dance scenes this film has become legendary.

Customer Reviews

One word - Genious!
How many films can nowadays hook a 6yr old boy into a perfect state of silence whilst at the same time giving him something to keep his young mind and body as active as it gets? Also ideal for the young at heart, as you'll find yourself poppin' and lockin' within minutes. Do I recommend it? Abso-Breakin'-lutely!

The Ultimate 80s Dance Classic
Breakdance is quite possibly the most definitive dance movie of the 1980s. It captured street dancing on film for the very first time while mixing it cleverly with an upbeat family entertainment value making not only a great dance movie but a beautifuly told fairy tale fantasy. Lucinda Dickey made her second major starring role with this box office hit. Her prior film was Ninja 3:The Domination also produced by MGM. Adolfo Quinones and Michael Chambers provide the sleek zezt of the street including, popping and waving while Lucinda adds in her fantastic classical dance and gymnastic routines. Breakdance was a very low budget film that went on to become the film that would start the breaking craze across the globe. Ever since the movie hit Cinemas in the summer of 1984, people were suddenly learning the moves and displaying on the city streets everywhere on the globe. It is a classic that everyone should own, specially if you love the 80s.

Breakdance
this film is a monster!!! people say that the acting is really shabby but to be onest i tohrt it was pretty damm good!!! only problem with the film i thought was that there was to much talking and not enough breaking and also the ballet parts were pretty dam boring! but overall well worth watching.ahahahah

5* what a beast.

Ben.