Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Fighting for something that means the world to you is everything. For Erin Grant(Demi Moore), her daughter is her world. She loses her job as a FBI secretary because her ex-husband(Robert Patrick) is working. However, her ex-husband is a criminal, and his daughter is being lied to keep her away. In order to get her back, Erin would stoop to work at a strip club. During the time, a Congressman(Burt Reynolds) catches his eye on Erin and takes a high interest in her. Another patron at the club wants to help Erin get her daughter back. But he knows what kind of a person the congressman is, and is later killed. Erin does get her daughter back, since the judge who remanded to the ex died of natural causes, she couldn't wait months to get her back, and the ex is very negligent. When Shad(Ving Rhames) the bouncer hears about all this, he would jump into action to make sure that she gets her daughter back. This movie is raw and highly impactive. Good star quality. Demi Moore does her character well. Her dancing and strip skills are top notch. Her daughter Rumer is very nice in her role. At the mother/daughter remain intact. It was a fine movie. It's not for everyone. Something to satisfy the urge. 3 out of 5 stars.

tdrish The plot is pretty simple: She needs cash, and she needs it fast. What better way to make a quick buck by being a stripper. Put all morals to the side, they don't exist in Striptease. She just wants her child back, this makes it right, right? What doesn't make it right, is the fact that this bore fest clocks in at almost 2 hours, and about an hour and a half of it is nothing but filler. If it's not filler, it's literally nothing of NOTHING. ( By the way, there is a scene where her young daughter catches her stripping...not sure what to make of it, to this day. She does compliment her, though.) Striptease is just a little better then the horrible showdown of Showgirls, one year this films senior. Burt Reynolds is in this, too...yeah, you know, you have to bill him from time to time, you can't have him just drop off the map completely. Boring, but can be touching and uplifting from time to time, the film does have soul...you can barely see it, but if not, you can feel it. Somewhat. 3 out of 10 stars. ( Just a reminder, if you want to see Demi naked, this isn't your movie, she bares it all in The Seventh Sign. You perverts!

Lars Lendale Striptease is even worse than Showgirls. The stripping is awful, it is apparently heavily erotic - I didn't see anything erotic, the dancing is laughable, this has to be the most overrated erotic movie of all time. There is nothing, not a single relevant, serious, well choreographed erotic dance clip or sex scene. The story was turned into a very shallow script and the only thing that the directors cared about, was showing Demi Moore in a thong. Looking back, this is where Demi's career ended. This movie was so bad it evicted Demi from the movie industry that disabled her any opportunity for a serious role. Demi Moore will be remembered forever in Striptease, the woman who showed a few bits of her butt in embarrassing fashion. There's no substance, no intrigue, no real insight, no drama, if they wanted to do a sexually orientated movie, then they should have waived the rights to Hustler to make a porno movie. Who ever played in this movie never recovered from it in the aftermath. Even for $15M, it's not worth it. Oh and the viewer also wastes 2hrs of his time.

NateWatchesCoolMovies The 90's saw a lot of comedic fluff come and go, some memorable, others not so much, and some nestled in that perfect, laid back place just between. Striptease falls into that category; it's not that eventful, but provides an enjoyable diversion with the help of a cast that's clearly having fun, and a reliably solid lead performance from the always fantastic Demi Moore. Here she plays a stripper doing her vest to raise her young daughter (Rumer Willis, Demi's real life daughter with Bruce Willis) right without much money or help. Moore is gifted in the fact that she can play the nastiest chicks just as proficiently as the more innocent good girls, and every area of gray in between. Here she's clearly got a good heart and has been obligated to enter her line of work trough her devotion to her daughter. That and it makes for a sexy character quirk to keep audiences perked. She's also attempting to avoid her deadbeat, dim bulb ex husband Daryl (Robert Patrick) who steals wheelchairs and sells them lol. She gets caught up in a dangerous blackmailing situation when a cheerfully alcoholic congressman (Burt Reynolds) takes a shine to her one night, and is forced to turn to sympathetic cop Al Garcia (Armand Assante) and bodyguard Shad (Ving Rhames) for help. It's slight, breezy stuff and although it's not the greatest movie, I was charmed by Demi and the happy go lucky tone that it keeps up. Having her real daughter in the film also really strengthens their scenes with a dynamic that you wouldn't otherwise get.