Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
Elizabeth Berkley Kyle MacLachlan Gina Gershon Glenn Plummer Robert Davi Alan Rachins Gina Ravera Lin Tucci Greg Travis Al Ruscio Patrick Bristow William Shockley Michelle Johnston Dewey Weber Rena Riffel Melissa Williams Ungela Brockman Melinda Songer Lance Davis Jack McGee Jim Ishida Bobbie Phillips Danté McCarthy Caroline Key Johnson Joan Foley Terry Beeman Kevin Stea Sebastian La Cause Lisa Boyle Show All…
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Burt Dalton Corey Pritchett Rodney M. Byrd Albert Delgado Jim Doyle William Aldridge Chuck Hessey Michael Wilmot Gary D'Amico
Heather Burton Debbie Evans Donna Evans Alan Oliney Kurtis Epper Chris Howell Gary Combs Danny Epper Steve Blalock Mark De Alessandro Vinita McClennon Jean Malahni Kira Tashjian Brett A. Jones Maria R. Kelly Gary McLarty Gilbert B. Combs Ruth A. Redfern Glory Fioramonti Simone Boisseree Joe Dunne Chris Palermo LaFaye Baker Lanier Edwards Johnny Hock Sharon Schaffer Marcia Holley J. Suzanne Rampe Jennifer Watson-Johnston Greg Brickman Jamie Sue Johnson Steve Chambers Shelley S. Boyle Gene Williams Michael John
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Diane Cummings Laura De'Atley John Blake Jane Aull Lyssa Wittlin Baumert Timothy A. Miguel David Forrest Thomas E. Surprenant
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The people who think this is dumb are the same people who think Inception is smart.
My fiancé was expecting a movie about a stripper with one whole leg as a body. The poster misled him, and he was severely disappointed.
"They don't wanna fuck a Penny…they wanna fuck a Hope."
Misunderstood even by some of its defenders as merely a satire of American greed and attendant dreams of stardom when its true target is the apparatus that sells those dreams to an endlessly returning audience of narcissistic suckers. All the more brilliant due to Verhoeven's staunch, heroic refusal to pander to good taste, not to mention the empathy he maintains for his lead character without ever letting her off the hook for her own culpability in the poisoned fantasy. That this movie continues to be "embraced" as unintentional camp (whether great camp -- and there's absolutely no reason this can't be that on top of everything else -- can ever really be an accident is another argument altogether) is only another example of Verhoeven exploiting peoples' ability to see whatever they need to.
The Rosetta Stone for understanding this entire movie (if not life itself) is the shot of Elizabeth Berkley angrily slamming a ketchup bottle on the table and causing a bright red stream of ketchup to come flying out.
The IMDB trivia page for this movie says that the only time the actresses felt uncomfortable was during some of the monkey scenes because they kept staring at their boobs, so jot that down.
For years everybody told me this was one of the worst movies ever made. Fools. All of you. Even -no- especially those of you who like it condescendingly. You're giving notes to a bird in flight as you stand there on the ground paying rent.
