Beat Street

Name: Beat Street
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: June 8, 1984
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Dean Elliott, Guy Davis, Jim Borrelli, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant

1984

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: June 8, 1984 | PG

Starring: Dean Elliott, Guy Davis, Jim Borrelli, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant, Mary Alice, Rae Dawn Chong, Robert Taylor, Saundra Santiago, Shawn Elliott

Summary: An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Director: Stan Lathan

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: PG

Runtime: 105 min

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Gene Siskel

An upbeat, thoroughly entertaining street film about an entertainment revolution in the depressed South Bronx, featuring break dancing, graffiti art and record mixing. A black and Puerto Rican version of Saturday Night Fever. [08 June 1984, p.12]

Rita Kempley

The music is electric on Beat Street, a good-natured, emotional movie, where morals are as sound as they were in the mom's-in-the-kitchen, dad's-in-insurance sitcoms of the '50s and '60s. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Designed for everybody who still hasn't had his or her fill of break dancing, or who doesn't yet understand that break dancing, rap singing and graffiti are legitimate expressions of the urban artistic impulse. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This energetic hip-hop musical barely supplements the large-scale musical numbers with its cliched plot, but it does capture a sense of the break-dancing craze and is more entertaining than most of the films made to cash in on that trend. Read full review

Time Out London Trevor Johnston

Pretty bland, but you have to admit co-producer Belafonte had an eye for talent, spotlighting HipHop legends-in-the-making Afrika Bambaata and the Soul Sonic Force, the Rock Steady Crew, and Grand Master Melle Mel and The Furious Five. Read full review

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