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Stripper

  • 19851985
  • RR
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
393
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Stripper (1985)
The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.
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The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.

IMDb RATING
5.7/10
393
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  • Director
    • Jerome Gary
  • Writer
    • Charles Gaines
  • Stars
    • Janette Boyd
    • Sara Costa
    • Kimberly Holcomb
Top credits
  • Director
    • Jerome Gary
  • Writer
    • Charles Gaines
  • Stars
    • Janette Boyd
    • Sara Costa
    • Kimberly Holcomb
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 14User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Top cast

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    Janette Boyd
    • Selfas Self
    Sara Costa
    • Selfas Self
    Kimberly Holcomb
    • Danyelas Danyel
    Loree Menton
    • Mouseas Mouse
    Lisa Suarez
    • Gioas Gio
    Ellen Claire McSweeney
    • Shakti Omas Shakti Om
    Jamal Rofeh
    • Self (club owner)as Self (club owner)
    Patrick Alexander
    • Firearms Instructoras Firearms Instructor
    Geof Bartz
    Geof Bartz
    • Selfas Self
    Carol Cox
    Venus DeLight
    • Selfas Self
    Laura Faye
    • Selfas Self
    Rikki Harte
    • Selfas Self
    Joy Michael
    • Selfas Self
    Rick Overton
    Rick Overton
    Suzanne Primeau
    • Selfas Self
    Tarren Rae
    • Selfas Self
    • Director
      • Jerome Gary
    • Writer
      • Charles Gaines
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    The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.
    • stripper
    • nevada
    • 1980s
    • female nudity
    • stripping
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    • Plot summary
    • Add synopsis
    • Taglines
      • A close up look at the most sensuous part of a woman. Her soul.
    • Genre
      • Documentary
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide
      • Add content advisory

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Sara Costa's range firing scenes were filmed on the Alhambra Police Department's shooting range in South El Monte, CA. All scenes shot involved real, live fire, using a Smith and Wesson, Model 19, .357 Magnum revolver. The director wanted to show her firing an impressive score, so it was decided that the instructor, (Patrick Alexander) would be off camera shooting the target which would then be inserted as if it was fired by Sara. In fact she was doing very well in her firearms self defense training, and the target that was shown in the final cut was actually shot by Sara Costa.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Stripper/Critters/Violets Are Blue.../Police Academy 3 (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Look, But Don't Touch
      Performed by Joe Lynn Turner

      Written by Joe Lynn Turner, Al Greenwood (as Alan Greenwood) and Chuck Burgi

      Produced by Mike Appel and Al Greenwood

    User reviews14

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    I'm of two minds about this movie...
    Basically it's about several different strippers that are gearing up to participate in a competition at a stripper convention in Las Vegas. The documentary filmmakers follow the girls, get their back story, and watch how things turn out for them at the big show.

    In many ways, it prefigures a lot of the "reality" TV stuff that would come out twenty years later. The hook is to develop rooting interests in each of the contestants and see how it all unfolds.

    To that end, "Stripper" has both good points and bad points. The good is that the production values are high and it is moderately entertaining to get invested in the dancers' ambitions. It could have been much more exploitative but tries gamely to be, well, a documentary. To a point, it succeeds. The bad is that, like much reality-based drama, many of the scenes feel manufactured and staged for the cameras. The final competition might just as well have been assembled for the purpose of making this film.

    A fair amount is superficial and can't be taken seriously. It's the softest of the soft core porn, so those looking for arousal should look elsewhere. But there's more than a glimmer of entertainment and human insight to be had, especially considering that this was done a generation before every empty-souled schnook looking for attention went on reality shows and both producer and viewer alike knew what to expect.

    This film does it well back before people started doing it poorly.
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    • Apr 2, 2008

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 31, 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Stripporna
    • Filming locations
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Embassy International Pictures
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Visionaire Communications Inc.
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $90,000
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $14,155
      • Feb 2, 1986
    • Gross worldwide
      • $90,000
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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