Streets of Fire (1984)

Directed by

Walter Hill

Genre

drama film, action film, musical film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 556 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ex-soldier returns to his old neighborhood when his ex-girlfriend, a famous rock singer, is kidnapped by a violent motorcycle gang. He teams up with a female ex-soldier to get her back. The movie has a stylized look that mixes 1950s and 1980s culture.

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What happens

Streets of Fire is a 1984 American action crime film directed by Walter Hill, from a screenplay by Hill and Larry Gross. Described on the poster and in the opening credits as "A Rock & Roll Fable", the film combines the culture and themes of the 1950s with the then-current 1980s. Starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, E.G. Daily, and Bill Paxton, the film follows ex-soldiers Tom Cody (Paré) and McCoy (Madigan) as they embark on a mission to rescue Cody's ex-girlfriend Ellen Aim (Lane), a rock singer who was kidnapped by Raven Shaddock (Dafoe), the leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang called the Bombers. Streets of Fire was theatrically released in the United States on June 1, 1984, to mixed reviews from critics and was a box office failure, grossing $8.1 million against its $14.5 million production budget. The film was intended to be the first installment of a planned trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Cody, but the project was ultimately dropped due to the film's critical and commercial performance. An unofficial sequel, Road to Hell, was released in 2008, with Paré and Van Valkenburgh reprising their roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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