Plot thumb|150px|Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri star in Flashdance Alex Owens is an eighteen-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, who lives with her dog, Grunt, in a converted warehouse. She aspires to become a professional dancer, but has no formal dance training and works as a nightly cabaret performer at Mawby's, a neighborhood bar and grill.
Plot thumb|150px|Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri star in Flashdance Alex Owens is an eighteen-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, who lives with her dog, Grunt, in a converted warehouse. She aspires to become a professional dancer but has no formal dance training and works as a nightly cabaret performer at Mawby's, a neighborhood bar and grill.