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Striptease (Unrated International Edition)

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So a friend and I snagged this movie for a guy's night when the girls were out of town. We got it more as a joke than anything else. I was quite surprised by how much I liked it. Not because it was sexy but because it was funny. The main thing this flick has going for it is that it didn't take itself seriously. Ving Rhames, who I always love, did a superb job playing a no BS bodyguard. Burt Reynolds was hilarious. And Demi? Well, she got naked. That's about all I can say for her. The story was hugely predictable, and the acting was pretty bad, but this movie was really funny. There were some great one-liners. The best line of the movie was one of Ving's: "Nico: What are you, nuts?! Shad: Yeah, psycho. Delusions of invincibility combined with a strong homicidal urge. I have a kick-your-ass fetish." Rent it with the guys, drink a few beers, have a few laughs. It's not as bad as you might think.

A fun comedy, I would thik made with a pretty low budget, but still worth seeing and if you like Demi Moore it is definetly worth buying it.
In the unrated version you will see some more nude scenes compared to the original.
It is definetly the sexiest movie for Demi Moore's fans.

Demi Moore was excellent in this film. She is not only a beautiful woman, not just body wise, but within her soul.
Demi plays a divorced woman, Erin Grant, who looses custody of her beloved daughter to a scumbag of an ex husband. (This is typical justice in the real world. I relate to this movie because it happened to me and I haven't seen my daughter for 13 years.)
Anyway, she had a respectful job at the FBI and looses it because of her husband's criminal activities. Then she looses her daughter because she doesn't have a job.
So she becomes an exotic dancer to make the money needed to get her daughter back. It's excellent money for her but she doesn't really like what she's doing. However, she performs with class and dignity, regardless of the stigmitism of "strippers." Ving Rhames, who is the bouncer Shad, has a soft spot in his heart for Erin. Anyone calling her a "stripper" will find a drill gun spinning at their forehead. She is a "dancer."
Burt Reynolds plays the corrupt, twisted Congressman who finds his "angel" (Erin) and persues her. There is legal snaffu's, funny scenes, and Erin is witty and courages because she will not give up on her daughter. Her love for her daughter is deep and real.
Demi learned to dance like an exotic dancer for this film and after just having a baby at the time, she looks great.
This film you will either like it or not. If you're looking for a lot of skin, T&A, this is not what you want. This film does have class. Demi's brief nudity in the film just proves that she is a confident woman and a great actress.

After reading the excellent book I just had to go out and get the movie. I would say that except for a collapse at the end, this film does capture the essence and spirit of the movie. And that's not an easy thing to do. Carl Hiaasen's novel about the topless business in Florida walked a very fine line. On one hand, just about everyone but Erin, played very well by Demi Moore, was portrayed as a loser to some degree under the biting pen of the author. Yet he told a story that made these characters seems realistic.

The movie does a much better job than I thought could be done with the subtle attitude of the story. A lot of the reviews I've seen show that the reviewers who saw it just don't get it. Yes, most of the characters are dumb and or evil, but they are done so in a sly, elegant manner. Just about every character in the movie nails the book, except Stuart Pankin's dull portrayal of the sleazy lawyer.

There are two factors that keep it from five-star territory. First, Hollywood does wimp out on the ending. One of the fine things Hiassen does while keeping his characters funny is also to make some of them realistically dangerous. These are nasty people, and while there is death in the movie, there was a lot more in the book. Were they thinking of making a sequel?

The other factor, and I have to be a stickler about it, is that the book portrayed a nude club, and there's just not enough shots of the ladies the way I'd like to see them. Some plot is just too important to leave out.

"The book is sooooo much better than the movie". "If you have a brain, don't watch this movie". Well, tsk, tsk, aren't we the intellectual snob? Listen, if I wanted to "read" this "story", I would have gone ahead and bought the book. I certainly didn't buy the video itself for the rich, intellectual content either. Demi Moore is nude. That is why I bought it. I didn't see much difference between the unrated and R-rated versions, though the unrated version claims to have two extra minutes of footage. Of what, I don't know. No big deal, really, except you're out about ten bucks for another version that is basically the same.

Again, most of us who own this video or DVD likely bought it with the realistic expectation that we wouldn't be seeing Oscar-caliber material. We bought it to see Demi Moore nude! What else really matters when you have THAT? Some people just expect entirely too much out of a movie.

I was actually pleasantly surprised, though. While it certainly isn't award-winning, the film is often pretty funny and sometimes touching. Something tells me the actors and director had nothing more than this in mind when making it. Demi Moore is hot...when you stop and recognize that fact as the dominant selling point in this you'll enjoy it more. A decent, although not great storyline is a nice bonus.

I just watched Striptease last night. Demi looked amazing! I don't care how she got that way but her body was incredible. The dance sequences were great and using the Eurythmics/Annie Lennox songs was a perfect choice. As for the movie itself it was just an excuse to showcase Demi - the plot, characters, everything was just muddled and confused. Ving Rhames' character was pretty cool though - very Marcellus Wallace-lite. All in all this movie is okay if you watch it while having a few margaritas!

Yes, this guilty pleasure movie is a hell of a lot better then Showgirls (poor Liz Berkley)

Demi Moore plays Erin, a mother that just got divorced from her sleazy of a husband (Robert Patrick of T2 fame), and has lost custody of her daughter (played by her real life daughter!)In order to get an appeal for the case Erin gose to work at a strip club, she becomes that clubs start dancer because she's hot and is a decent dancer, however her antics attract a crazed fan and a horny congressmen. Erin tries to use the congressmen to get her a far chance at getting her daughter back from her ex that like to steal wheel chairs, however, people near the congress men are afraid that Erin might something that could cause embarrassment tohim, and hurt some of his shady friends in the sugar industry.

Base off a hilarious book by Carl Hiassen, the movie is able to capture MOST of the people, story and humor of the book. Although less endowed in the book, Demi is able to perform Hiassen's character with the beauty and intelligence we saw when we read the book, although the political undertones of Florida politics (Hiassen trade mark) are gone the movie dose do the book some justice compared to how other books that have been made into movies.

BTW-I read the book before I saw the movie.

Although some of the casting in this movie is a bit cheesy, the story line isn't too bad. Some of my favorite actors are here, like demi moore for starters, the t T-1000(a.k.a. robert patrick)and even smokie and the bandits burt reynolds! The story revolves around a stripper who ends up in a custody battle over her daughter. If you've ever wanted to see demi moore as close to au natural as possible then this movie in my opinion comes as close as were probably gonna get! But i'll leave something to the imagination! Just watch the movie and judge it for yourself!

It's really unfortunate that most people know this brilliant story only as a mediocre film. The story was adapted from an absolutely delightful novel written by Carl Hiassen of the Miami Herald. Having read Strip Tease before seeing the movie, I enjoyed Striptease a lot more than most viewers. I can understand how people would think the movie missed the mark if judged only by the movie.

Burt Reynolds plays Congressman Dilbeck almost exactly as he's portrayed in the book and he does a fantastic job in the role. Ving Rhames does a great job playing the bouncer, Shad, at the Eager Beaver. Unfortunately, the screenwriters' adapted screenplay attempts to make the Erin Grant role a bit more serious than she was in the book and, quite honestly, a more significant character than she was. Given that "Strip Tease" the novel was a dark comedy, having any character delve into the seriously dramatic was not really something I feel Hiassen intended.

Whether talking about the book or the film, do note that this story isn't a sex-fest. While the story does have a great number of scenes where the strip club is the setting, it's really done in such a way that it's not at all distasteful. I think that while some of the scenes where Erin was dancing were dragged on for the moviegoers who were just there to see Demi nude, the filmmakers did a commendable job keeping it from becoming entirely about sex and I give them credit for that. The story could have been slanted an entirely different direction with this kind of story.

For the real story, read the book and you'll enjoy. The movie makes a lot more sense when you've read the book. I own the movie and the book and enjoy both.

What's wrong with you people? I like this film. I think it's incredibly funny, like when Ving Rhames walks into a video store and asks if Free Willy is back. Or when the club owner talks about how a porpous aroused him. It's a very funny look at congress (Reynolds does an outstanding job as does Robert Patrick) I...I just think it's an enjoyable film. E-mail me if you think otherwise.