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    Striptease (1996)

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    Based on a half-decent novel by Carl Hiaasen, Striptease is a dumbed-down-for-the-masses vehicle for Demi Moore, who one doesn’t immediately associate with comedy unless Indecent Proposal (1993) and The Scarlet Letter were supposed to be funny.

    She plays Erin Grant, a chiselled, surgically enhanced single mother who strips at The Eager Beaver (a club whose logo features a Jessica Rabbit lookalike sitting astride a pink rocket) and just wants to regain custody of her daughter from slimy Darrell (Robert Patrick), who steals wheelchairs to make a quick buck.

    Even though she dances like Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls (1995), Erin comes to the attention of Dave Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds, after Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Gene Hackman turned the role down), a Congressman with a weakness for titty bars and murdering his opponents, causing her to wonder aloud, “How did I get so popular?” (how indeed?).

    When Dave invites her to dance for him on his yacht, she storms out after he confesses to stealing (and making love to) her laundry lint, and if that sounds lame and silly, it’s just the tip of the iceberg in a film that mistakes shameless mugging for comic timing and often substitutes airless drama for jokes.

    In fact, nobody gets an opportunity to raise any laughs, steal the show or even deliver a good line.

    There’s nothing to work with in writer/director Andrew Bergman’s script and he seems to know it, lingering on the strip scenes longer than is strictly necessary.

    It ends with the villains trapped in a sugar mountain with their heads sticking out, looking like the Three Stooges.

    One of them says, “You have a serious dandruff problem” and the last remaining audience member walks out.

    Erin Grant
    Demi Moore
    Congressman David Dilbeck
    Burt Reynolds
    Lt. Al Garcia
    Armand Assante
    Shad
    Ving Rhames
    Darrell Grant
    Robert Patrick
    Malcolm Moldovsky
    Paul Guilfoyle
    Orly
    Jerry Grayson
    Angela Grant
    Rumer Willis
    Erb Crandal
    Robert Stanton
    Jerry Killian
    William Hill
    Alan Mordecai
    Stuart Pankin
    Monique Jr.
    Dina Spybey-Waters
    Sabrina Hepburn
    PaSean Wilson
    Urbanna Sprawl
    Pandora Peaks
    Lorelei
    Barbara Alyn Woods
    Ariel Sharon
    Kimberly Flynn
    Tiffany
    Rena Riffel
    Rita Grant
    Siobhan Fallon
    Alberto
    Gary Basaraba
    Paul Guber
    Matt Baron
    Willy Rojo
    Gianni Russo
    Chris Rojo
    José Zúñiga
    Pierre
    Anthony Jones
    Chico
    Eduardo Yáñez
    Nico
    Antoni Corone
    Donna Garcia
    Frances Fisher
    Andy Garcia
    Teddy Bergman
    Judge Fingerhut
    Louis Seeger Crume

    Director
    Andrew Bergman

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