Striptease (1996)
44%RT Audience Score: 40%
Awards & Nominations: 8 wins & 4 nominations
Striptease can’t decide whether it is a lurid thriller or a sexy satire – which becomes a moot point as it proves disastrously incapable of pulling either off
Striptease is like a bad blind date that you can’t wait to end. The movie’s premise is thinner than the heroine’s G-string, and the script is at a loss for any kind of drama between Moore’s dances. But hey, at least there are some quotable one-liners and a bevy of strippers to lend colorful albeit stereotypically ditzy support. Overall, it’s not a complete disaster like Showgirls, but it’s definitely not worth the price of admission. Save your money and go see Magic Mike instead.
Production Company(ies)
HBO Documentary Hit The Ground Running Films, Notorious Pictures,
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Hollywood, Florida, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for nudity, erotic dancing and language
Year of Release
1996
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:SDDS Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Jul 27, 1999
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick, Burt Reynolds, Paul Guilfoyle, directed by Andrew Bergman, written by Andrew Bergman, Drama, R rating, box office gross $32.8M, reviewed by Fred Camper, Chris Peachment, Joe Morgenstern, Gene Siskel, Rita Kempley, Jeff Shannon, Eddie Harrison, Leigh Paatsch, Gary Susman, Dennis King, Chris Kridler, Leah Rozen, Mike Lobell, produced by Andrew Bergman, MPAA rating R, stripper, Miami, FBI, custody battle, dancing, obsession, politician, legal case, satire, thriller, sexy, charm, violence, G-string, nudity, exotic dancers, humor, likable cast, amiable comedy, ambitions, yucks, matter-of-fact nudity, silicon-heavy, eroticism, quotable one-liners, crime-thriller, propulsive, scabrous plot, oddball humor, stereotypically ditzy support
Worldwide gross: $113,309,743
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $216,279,463
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 654
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 23,585,547
US/Canada gross: $33,109,743
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $63,198,073
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 968
US/Canada opening weekend: $12,322,069
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $23,519,694
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 570
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $40,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $76,349,820
Production budget ranking: 548
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $41,114,378
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $98,815,264
ROI to date (est.): 84%
ROI ranking: 999
Armand Assante – Lt. Al Garcia
Ving Rhames – Shad
Robert Patrick – Darrell Grant
Burt Reynolds – Congressman David Dilbeck
Paul Guilfoyle – Malcolm Moldovsky
Director(s)
Andrew Bergman
Writer(s)
Andrew Bergman
Producer(s)
Mike Lobell, Andrew Bergman
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
8 wins & 4 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (72) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (62)
The image’s occasional yellowish field combines with the reverse motion to denaturalize Frye’s figure: he seems trapped on the surface, in the emulsion.
June 16, 2022
Fred Camper
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
I don’t know if the lawyers are currently scanning the contracts for Striptease in order to find out what went wrong in the small print, but someone got badly conned; and that someone is mostly the audience.
November 28, 2017
Chris Peachment
Daily Telegraph (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Yet another case of the star’s salary being much more interesting, and exuberantly vulgar, than anything the screen reveals.
June 18, 2014
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
TOP CRITIC
The Striptease script… is at a loss for any kind of drama between Moore’s dances. Not for a second do we care about her as a mother, wife or working woman.
June 18, 2014 | Rating: 1/4
Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
The film’s premise is thinner than the heroine’s G-string.
June 18, 2014
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
TOP CRITIC
Bergman, who made The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas, provides quotable one-liners for everyone (especially Rhames), and a bevy of strippers lend colorful albeit stereotypically ditzy support.
June 18, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times
TOP CRITIC
‘…a better than average crime-thriller with some salty characters and a propulsive, scabrous plot….
June 13, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
Eddie Harrison
film-authority.com
Slack stuff.
October 19, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/5
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
Striptease is not a disaster like that other expensive ecdysiast extravaganza, Showgirls, though if it were, it might at least have some redeeming camp awfulness to enliven its otherwise dull mediocrity.
June 18, 2014
Gary Susman
Boston Phoenix
For all its matter-of-fact nudity and wealth of silicon-heavy exotic dancers, the film lacks any palpable sense of eroticism.
June 18, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
Dennis King
Tulsa World
Although the movie is a bit too long, oddball humor and a likable cast keep it entertaining.
June 18, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4
Chris Kridler
Baltimore Sun
Striptease is an amiable comedy with ambitions to be a satire, but its thriller plot keeps getting in the way of the yucks.
June 18, 2014
Leah Rozen
People Magazine…
Plot
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she’s divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Ving Rhames plays an imposing bouncer named Shad in the film.
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