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Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven, from a script written by Joe Eszterhas, starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, and Gina Ravera .
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- Paul Verhoeven
- NC-17
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With Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer. A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, Nevada, and begins working as a strip club dancer, and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
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- Paul Verhoeven
- “Showgirls,” a movie about a volatile and combative stripper-turned-dancer on the Las Vegas strip, was originally pitched as a big, splashy MGM-style Hollywood musical.
- Nomi almost lashed out at another woman — literally. Early versions of Joe Eszterhas’s screenplay have long been circulating around the internet. In one, we read one of the more outrageous scenes left on the cutting-room floor.
- Fearing a NC-17 rating would be a death knell for box office success, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas publicly encouraged minors to get fake IDs. In an interview that sparked much backlash prior to the theatrical release of “Showgirls,” Eszterhas offered some advice for teenagers who weren’t old enough to buy a ticket given the film’s restrictive NC-17 rating — it was the first time a film with that rating got a wide release in mainstream theaters.
- Paul Verhoeven was the first director to accept his Razzie Award in person. The Golden Raspberry Awards, or “Razzies,” were founded in 1981 to celebrate the worst in cinema and held annually the night before the Oscars in a small conference room at the Roosevelt Hotel, back when Hollywood was known for being more seedy than glitzy and the Academy Awards were at the Shrine Auditorium near Downtown L.A.
Sep 23, 2020 · Actress Gina Ravera, who has only seen “Showgirls” once, is hesitant to fully embrace the 1995’s film’s camp status, for very personal reasons.
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- Ethan Alter
Sep 1, 2020 · Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is notorious for becoming the definitive so-bad-it's-good Hollywood movie debacle. Starring Elizabeth Berkley in her big-screen debut, the film follows a deeply troubled young woman named Nomi Malone as she tries to make it big as an adult entertainer in Sin City.
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Sep 22, 1995 · 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.
