Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable from another time, another place; a nighttime, rain-slicked city of ‘50s fashion and dystopian nightmares where motorcycle madmen can kidnap a rock star from stage and escape to a damp factory bar of steam, metal, and fire. But when Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is taken by Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe) and his greasy gang, Ellen’s manager / new boyfriend (Rick Moranis) will have to hire her tough ex (Michael Paré) to get her back. Writer-director Walter Hill packs a lifetime of cool into a swift-moving 93 minutes, filling every frame with gorgeous imagery by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo, all backed to an incredible soundtrack highlighted by two songs written by Jim Steinman (Nowhere Fast, Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young, both all-timers) and Dan Hartman’s Billboard hit I Can Dream About You.