Striptease [Uncut International Version] [Blu-ray]

Director: Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman

Overview

After losing a court battle to gain custody of her daughter, Erin decides to earn the money to fight the case by becoming a stripper. While working at the club she gets caught up in a scandal involving crooked Congressman Dillbeck. When someone suggests blackmailing Dillbeck, Erin's life is endangered.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/06/2012
UPC:	0883929222568
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	13,582

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Demi Moore	Erin Grant
Armand Assante	Al Garcia,Patron in Club
Ving Rhames	Shad
Robert Patrick	Darrell Grant
Burt Reynolds	David Dilbeck
Paul Guilfoyle	Malcolm Moldovsky
Jerry Grayson	Orly
Rumer Willis	Angela
Robert Stanton	Erb Crandal
William Hill	Jerry Killian
Stuart Pankin	Alan Mordecai
Dina Spybey	Monique Jr.
Pasean Wilson	Sabrina Hepburn
Pandora Peaks	Urbana Sprawl
Barbara Alyn Woods	Lorelei
Kimberly Flynn	Ariel Sharon
Rena Riffel	Tiffany Glass
Siobhan Fallon	Rita
Gary Basaraba	Alberto
Matthew Baron	Paul Guber
Gianni Russo	Willie Rojo
Anthony Jones	Pierre,Pierre
Antoni Corone	Nico
Frances Fisher	Donna Garcia
Teddy Bergman	Andy
Louis Seeger Crume	Judge Fingerhut
Aymee Garcia	Temp
Deborah Magdalena	Secretary
Keone Young	Ling
Johnny Cocktails	DJ
Anthony Giaimo	Medical Examiner
Jerry Pacific	Parking Valet
Anna Lobell	Video Clerk
Diane Adams	Hospital Volunteer
Chad Ayers	Young Christian
April Sharpe	Seaquarium Guide
Maria Gennaro	TV Reporter
Keith Blaney	Bachelor No. 1
Marc Chaykin	Bachelor No. 2
Edward Goldstein	Bartender
Christine Bauerle	Cocktail Waitress
Yoshi Obata	Business Man in Club
Tony Toyoda	Business Man in Club
Scott Oughterson	Business Man in Club
Ted Niarchos Jr.	Patron in Club
Darreck Crane	Patron in Club
Carl White	Actor
Steve Warren	Actor
Tammi Sutton	Actor
Claudio Sadler	Actor
Dina Spybey-Waters	Monique, Jr.
José Zúñiga	Chris Rojo
Eduardo Yáñez	Chico
Stephanie Schick	Urbanna Sprawl
Edge	Christian Dignitary
Dan Shana	Shad's Monkey
Howard Shore	Conductor,Composer

Technical Credits

Andrew Bergman

Carl Hiaasen

Andrew Bergman	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Joseph Hartwick	Executive Producer,Producer
Mike Lobell	Producer
John Lyons	Casting
Phil Neilson	Stunts
Carl Hiaasen	Screenwriter
Daneen Lagrone Conroy	Producer
Ed Barteski	Sound Effects
Trevor Albert	Producer
Lori Wyman	Casting
Anthony Ciccolini	Sound Editor
Warren Shaw	Sound Editor
Harry Bolles	Sound Editor
James Sabat	Sound Mixer
Dan Korintus	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

Critics were eager to label Striptease the same kind of colossal skin-flick failure as Showgirls, in part because both employed the same save-face marketing strategy: call it a lampoon of eroticism, rather than eroticism proper, and try to win a sympathetic ear. But there's legitimate mirth to be found in this first film adaptation of a novel by Carl Hiaasen, whose series of outlandish takes on Florida political corruption have won him a popular following. The corrupt politician du jour is a sex-crazed congressman played by Burt Reynolds, whose daffy breeziness is a dead giveaway of the film's true lighthearted nature. Striptease courted buzz for its promise to show more of Demi Moore than anyone but Bruce Willis had ever seen, and her artfully sculpted and toned flesh is indeed on display. But it's hard to call this film anything but a comedy, what with a politician who fills his cowboy boots with Vaseline prior to speeches, a bodyguard (Ving Rhames) who practices inserting cockroaches into "unopened" yogurt containers as lawsuit fodder, and a drunken ex-husband (played with liberating abandon by Robert Patrick) who stumbles around on dog tranquilizers with a golf club lashed to his broken arm as a makeshift splint. Add Paul Guilfoyle and Armand Assante and the result is an ensemble of humorous personalities who can barely contain themselves from winking at the audience. Striptease may indeed have gone awry as the concept traveled from boardroom to multiplex, but the results are watchable because of the film's surprisingly nutty charm.