Showgirls
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Time Out says
Joe Eszterhas' by-numbers script recycles the baggy, Faustian 'ingénue comes to the big bad city' tale and stuffs it into a skimpy, lamé-bedecked version of the 'let's put on a show' musical. Plus topless. Alarm bells sound in the gauche opening sequence where hot-panted Nomi (Berkley) hitches her way into Las Vegas in the car of a predatory 'slick'. Thereafter, it's red lights all the way. You couldn't call the film misogynist; director Verhoeven's targets are too wide-ranging for it to be anything less than purely misanthropic.Author: WH
Release details
UK release:
1995
Duration:
131 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Elizabeth Berkley, Alan Rachins, Lin Tucci, Kyle MacLachlan, Glenn Plummer, Gina Gershon, Robert Davi, Gina Ravera
Producer:
Screenwriter:
Joe Eszterhas, Douglas Day Stewart
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