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Beat Street (1984)
Directed by Stan Lathan
“Takin' the beat to the streets!”
Drama, Music · 1h 45m
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.
Cast
G
Guy Davis
Kenny Kirkland
Rae Dawn Chong
Tracy Carlson
Saundra Santiago
Carmen Cararro
Doug E. Fresh
Himself
Mary Alice
Cora
Shawn Elliott
Domingo
Duane Jones
Robert
Kadeem Hardison
High School Student (scenes deleted)
Jon Chardiet
Ramon
Leon W. Grant
Chollie
R
Robert Taylor
Lee Kirkland
DJ Kool Herc
Clive Campbell
Crew
- Director
- Stan Lathan
- Screenplay
- Andrew Davis, David Gilbert, Paul Golding
- Director of Photography
- Tom Priestley Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Arthur Baker, Harry Belafonte, Webster Lewis
- Editor
- Dov Hoenig, Kevin Lee
- Producer
- David V. Picker, Michael Holman
Details
- Release date
- 1984-06-08
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Orion Pictures
- Budget
- $9,500,000
- Box office
- $16,600,000