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Rating: 5.5 stars

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All movies seen on 02/11/2011

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B-Girl (2009)

Directed by Emily Dell

Drama | Music

Overview

A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly ends her dance career forever. B-Girl follows Angel through recovery and acceptance of a new life as she busts a move into the male-centric world of underground hip hop.

Rated PG-13 | Length 84 minutes

Actors

Julie 'Jules' Urich | Missy Yager | Wesley Jonathan | Drew Sidora | Aimee Garcia | James Martinez | Richard Yniguez | Jenny Gago | Oren Michaeli | Jonathan 'Legacy' Perez | Keith Stallworth | Richard Steelo Vasquez | Ivan 'Flipz' Velez | Marcelo Tubert | Robert Cicchini | Josue Anthony | Bunnie Rivera | Nika Williams | Sita Young | Juliette Jackson

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Given that I’m a middle-aged white boy from Arkansas who grew up in Illinois, I have a strange liking for breakdancing. It stems from watching live breakdancing competitions at a local Pizza Hut back in the day, and probably from the fact that my first date ever involved taking a girl named Jenny to see Breakin’ II: Electric Boogaloo.

(insert uncomfortable silence here)

B-Girl was a fun watch. The acting isn’t brilliant, but not bad either, and the plotline is take it or leave it. The draw here is the dancing. It’s just fun to watch B-Boys and B-Girls break, and they do a great job of it here on a small budget, especially lead actress Jules Urich (who you can also see in Step Up II: The Streets and You Got Served.

Probably not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

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