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Toon Agterberg | ... | Self / Segment 'Spetters' (archive footage) |
Nancy Allen | ... | Self / Segment 'RoboCop' (archive footage) | |
Kevin Bacon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Matthew Baume | ... | Self / Writer for The Advocate, Rolling Stone (voice) |
Jennifer Beals | ... | Self / Segment 'Flashdance' (archive footage) | |
Elizabeth Berkley | ... | Self / Segment 'Showgirls' (archive footage) | |
Ronnie Bierman | ... | Self / Segment 'Wat Zien Ik' (archive footage) | |
Jake Busey | ... | Self / Segment 'Starship Troopers' (archive footage) | |
Nicolas Cage | ... | Self / Segment 'The Wicker Man' (archive footage) | |
Glenn Close | ... | Self / Segment 'Fatal Attraction' (archive footage) | |
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Jeffery Conway | ... | Self |
Ronny Cox | ... | Self / Segment 'RoboCop 1987' (archive footage) | |
Joan Crawford | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Robert Davi | ... | Self / Segment 'Showgirls' (archive footage) | |
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Sylvia de Leur | ... | Self / Segment 'Wat Zien Ik' (archive footage) |
Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls (1995) was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don't Nomi traces the film's redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
Remember Claire from Six Feet Under? She goes to Art School and she befriends teenagers who are always high and will bring politics into every single thing for no reason. Now imagine those art school teenagers making a documentary about Showgirls and distorting every single thing in the movie to fit their narrative, that's You Don't Nomi. Everything you don't want in a Showgirls doc is here. Personal stories of random people I couldn't care less about and political commentary all over the place. What could have been an interesting dissection of the film and how it impacted Pop Culture, became a bad drinking game and if you take a shot everytime someone says "straight white male" you'll be drunk in no time. Ironically enough, this mess, completely misses the point about black characters, reducing Molly to a sidekick who only exists to serve Nomi, while in truth, Molly has the best and most interesting and sinister storyline in the film. Anyway, don't bother with this, get your friends together, watch the movie and discuss it among yourselves, you'll have a much better time.