Flying

10/10/2022

**_“Flashdance” meets “Karate Kid” with Olivia d'Abo and Keanu Reeves_** In Buffalo, a former gymnast teen (d'Abo) seeks to get back on the team after recovering from an accident. Will she rise up like a phoenix from the ashes to participate in the regional gymnastics competition in Niagara Falls? Reeves plays her potential beau while Rita Tushingham is on hand as the coach. Shot in autumn, 1984, but not released until 1986, "Teenage Dream” was originally called “Flying,” but is also known as “Dream to Believe” (which was the title card of the version I saw). It’s a knockoff of “Flashdance” (1983) albeit with the teenage milieu of “Karate Kid” (1984). The parallels to “Flashdance” are pretty glaring: Instead of being concerned about auditioning for a dance school, the protagonis