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7/10
This movie centers around a strip club, its employees, and its visitors. Throughout the movie, women are shown topless many times, and the exotic dancers are shown dressing and undressing in the normal course of their work. In many scenes, only a skimpy thong bottom separates an on-screen character from complete nudity. There are also several scenes showing women in bikinis.
In the first brief exotic dancing scene, a woman in a bikini unclasps the top and flashes her cleavage and areolae. Later she is seen dancing with the top hanging fully open, exposing her nipples as well. Other women dancing on stage at the same time are shown topless, wearing only skimpy thong bottoms, so that we clearly see their bared breasts and buttocks. There are several other brief scenes like this throughout the movie.
Demi Moore has several exotic dancing scenes in the movie: three in the club, two at a private venue, and one at home. These scenes average roughly three minutes each, and constitute the bulk of the nudity in this movie. The other exotic dancing scenes are brief, often only a few seconds long.
In Ms. Moore's first stripping scene, she is interrupted before she can remove her top by one club patron attacking another. She spends most of the scene in a skimpy bikini.
Ms. Moore starts her next dance scene in a negligee, bra, and string bikini thong panties. She soon tosses the negligee, revealing that the bra is sheer, with opaque bits of decoration covering her areolae and nipples. She dances for about three minutes in this outfit, then she then removes the bra, dancing topless for a further half minute or so. Though we are seeing Ms. Moore almost completely unclad throughout the bulk if this scene, the sexuality of the scene comes more from the way she moves and strokes her body than by the amount of skin she is showing.
In a later scene of similar length and character, Ms. Moore's character is seen dancing topless by her prepubescent daughter, who clearly has no notion of the social meaning of what she is seeing while peeking past the curtain blocking the backstage passage. The girl also sees another dancer topless backstage.
In Ms. Moore's two private performances for one of the main characters, we see less sensuality and no more skin than in her stage routines. Her second private performance is interrupted by plot developments at a point where she has gotten down to an opaque teddy, which Ms. Moore wears through the last quarter of the movie.
For the most part, this movie only uses nudity to advance the plot, rather than to titillate the viewer.
There is no overt sexuality in the movie. There is not even any kissing. |
