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Beat Street is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stan Lathan released in USA on 8 june 1984 with Rae Dawn Chong
Beat Street (1984)
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Add to a movie listBeat Street is an American 1984 drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti. It began with a script written by Steven Hager titled "Looking for the Perfect Beat" and in 2012, Hager put that original script up at smashwords.com.
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Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC, and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with Beat Street Breakers (the New York City Breakers). Kenny's best friends are Ramon (Jon Chardiet), a graffiti artist known by his tag, "Ramo", and Chollie (Leon W. Grant), his self-styled manager/promoter.Actors
Rae Dawn Chong
(Tracy Carlson)
Robert Taylor
Saundra Santiago
(Carmen Carraro)
Guy Davis
(Kenny)
Antonia Rey
(Flora)
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