Striptease
Directed by:
Andrew BergmanScreenplay:
Andrew BergmanCinematography:
Stephen GoldblattComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick, Paul Guilfoyle, Jerry Grayson, Rumer Willis, Robert Stanton, William Hill (more)Plots(1)
Erin Grant (Demi Moore) must confront the naked truth; to take on the system, she must first take it off. Bounced from her job, she needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. The pulsating gentleman's club world of exotic dream-girls and whooping patrons is skewered. Erin strips to conquer, then faces unintended consequences when a horny hound dog of a congressman (Reynodls) fixates on her. Cash, blackmail, murder – the legislator has a lot of shady tools at his fingertips, but against Erin he's overmatched. She may strip for a living. Yet it's the politician and his cronies who end up exposed. (Warner Bros. UK)
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Do not read all those sarcastic comments before watching the movie, it would probably be a candidate for waste. But even so, the screenwriting and directing helplessness surprised me quite a bit. The producers must have been afflicted with blindness... I could forgive the complete absence of humor and tension, but the fact that it is possible to make such an asexual story from the environment of a strip club is fascinating in its own way. Demi Moore doesn't play brilliantly, but she delivers her standard, which cannot be said about all the performers. Overall impression 20%.
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