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Release Date: 1984 Cast: Ice T, Peter Bromilow, Michael Chambers, Eleanor Zee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Teresa Kelly, Timothy Solomon, Phineas Newborn III, Adolfo Quinones, Ana Sánchez, Ed Lottimer, Lucinda Dickey ...MORE
Cast: Ice T, Peter Bromilow, Michael Chambers, Eleanor Zee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Teresa Kelly, Timothy Solomon, Phineas Newborn III, Adolfo Quinones, Ana Sánchez, Ed Lottimer, Lucinda Dickey, Bruno Falcon, Ben Lokey, Christopher McDonald, Scott Cooper ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Dance, Indie, Dance film, Hip hop movies, Musical, Coming of age Breakin', released as Breakdance: The Movie in some countries, is a 1984 breakdancing-themed film directed by Joel Silberg. The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled Breakin' and Enterin' set in the Los Angeles multi-racial hip hop club Radiotron, based out of Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Many of the artists and dancers, including Ice-T (who makes his movie debut as a club MC) and Boogaloo Shrimp, went straight from Breakin' and Enterin' to star in Breakin'. Ice-T has stated he considers the film and his own performance in it to be "wack".
The music score featured... MORE
Breakin', released as Breakdance: The Movie in some countries, is a 1984 breakdancing-themed film directed by Joel Silberg. The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled Breakin' and Enterin' set in the Los Angeles multi-racial hip hop club Radiotron, based out of Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Many of the artists and dancers, including Ice-T (who makes his movie debut as a club MC) and Boogaloo Shrimp, went straight from Breakin' and Enterin' to star in Breakin'. Ice-T has stated he considers the film and his own performance in it to be "wack".
The music score featured the hits "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us" by Ollie & Jerry and "Freakshow on the Dance Floor". Breakin' was followed by a sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Kelly, a struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break dancers, Ozone (Adolfo Quiñones)(known for crazy inversions) and Turbo (Michael Chambers), who have a bitter rivalry with another crew, Electro Rock, consisting of poppers Poppin' Pete (Timothy Solomon), Poppin' Taco (Bruno Falcon) and Lollipop (Ana 'Lollipop' Sánchez). They also struggle to overcome scorn from Kelly's dance instructor, Franco, who disapproves LESS
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