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Overview

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3.9/10   16,864 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Carl Hiaasen (book)
Andrew Bergman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
28 June 1996 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Some People Get Into Trouble No Matter What They WEAR. more
Plot:
A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 2 nominations more
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Good or bad? Funny or ridiculous? Misunderstood satirical masterpiece or... more (97 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Demi Moore ... Erin Grant

Burt Reynolds ... Congressman David Dilbeck

Armand Assante ... Lt. Al Garcia

Ving Rhames ... Shad

Robert Patrick ... Darrell Grant
Paul Guilfoyle ... Malcolm Moldovsky

Jerry Grayson ... Orly

Rumer Willis ... Angela Grant

Robert Stanton ... Erb Crandal

William Hill ... Jerry Killian

Stuart Pankin ... Alan Mordecai

Dina Waters ... Monique, Jr. (as Dina Spybey)

PaSean Wilson ... Sabrina Hepburn
Pandora Peaks ... Urbanna Sprawl
Barbara Alyn Woods ... Lorelei
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for nudity, erotic dancing and language.
Runtime:
115 min | USA:117 min (unrated version)
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Colour (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Sweden:11 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (also unrated version) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (also unrated version) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) (also unrated version) | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 (w) | Iceland:16 | Italy:T | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R (original rating) | USA:Unrated (video rating) (special edition)
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Trivia:
The book that Pierre (Anthony Jones), the limousine driver, is reading at 1:24:55 while waiting for Demi Moore to show up for her second dance on the Senator's boat is Vol. 9 of Mission Earth: "Villainy Victorious", by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. more
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Crew or equipment visible: About 41 minutes in there is a shot of a limo driving by with a visible camera attached to the bottom. more
Quotes:
Alan Mordecai: Do you follow politics, Mr. Shad?
Shad: Do I look like I follow politics?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mad About You: Outbreak (#5.7)" (1996) more
Soundtrack:
Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead more

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25 out of 31 people found the following comment useful.
Good or bad? Funny or ridiculous? Misunderstood satirical masterpiece or..., 12 August 2005
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Author: Galina from Virginia, USA

...the flop that deserves six of its Razzies and the nomination for Worst Picture of the Decade?

I think, "Striptease" (1996) directed by Andrew Bergman based on the book by Carl Hiaasen, is all of the above - a curious mixture of laughs, satire, absurdism, darkness, silliness, and over-seriousness. The latter comes from Demi Moore who plays Erin Grant, the FBI secretary - losing her job and the custody over her daughter to no good small time crook wheelchairs stealing husband (Robert Patrick looking and acting like a stoned, redneck version of Gary Oldman) and who takes a job as an exotic dancer in the local club "Eager Beaver" to earn money for her court appeal. In the club she becomes the hottest attraction and meets many...interesting characters, the most colorful being, of course Congressman David Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds) who "just loves naked women. It's a character flaw" and who is absolutely smitten by Erin. Erin also makes friends with a club bouncer, Shad (Ving Rhames) who is perhaps the best thing in the movie - clever, sharp, sarcastic, with the great sense of humor. One scene where Shad tells to Dilbeck's bodyguards that Meryl Streep used to work in "Eager Beaver" as an exotic dancer and they seem to believe him is brilliant. If only everything had been as good as he was we would've had a really great movie. What do we have now? Well, Demi Moore looks really good with the minimum clothes on. I mean, the woman was a 33 year old mother of three at the time and her body was marvel to behold. I just think that she was too serious, intense, and solemn doing the striptease numbers – after all it is not only strip it is tease, too. It goes to her acting in the movie in general. Reynolds seemed to have a lot of fun with his sleazy drunk Congressman David Dilbeck, election-day choice of Christian groups and a lot of laughs comes from his mannerism and quotes. There are plenty of laughs, actually, in "Striptease" but quite often they seem like the wrong and unintentional type for the movie material.

Who had the best laugh? I'd guess, Demi Moore did after been paid $12.5 million – one of the highest paychecks for an actress back then.

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