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Showgirls [DVD] [1996]

DVD ~ Elizabeth Berkley
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  • Actors: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi
  • Directors: Paul Verhoeven
  • Writers: Joe Eszterhas
  • Producers: Alan Marshall, Ben Myron, Charles Evans, Lynn Ehrensperger, Mario Kassar
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 125 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D0C5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,575 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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When Goldie Hawn recommended Elizabeth Berkley for a small role in First Wives Club, she publicly stated that Berkley deserved the opportunity to redeem herself after starring in the ridiculous Showgirls. That says it all: this sleazy, stupid movie, which mixes soft pornography with the clichés of backstage dramas, is the kind of project an aspiring actress would have to put well behind her to keep a career going (though co-star Gina Gershon certainly benefited from her, uh, exposure in the film). Berkley plays a drifter who hitches a ride to Las Vegas, becomes a lap dancer and then a performer, and discovers--gasp!--there's a whole world of sex and violence involved with these things. Gershon is probably the best element in the film, playing Berkley's bisexual rival for the big spotlight on stage. Joe Eszterhas was well overpaid for writing this howler, and director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) should have known better than to take it seriously. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Production Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer
Teaser Trailer
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Cult Classic, 27 Dec 2007
By David Rush "Fasten your seatbelts, its going ... (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Showgirls is an excellent cult film. Its filled with terrible dialogue delivered by actors in performances that they'd surely rather forget. Paul Verhoeven - usually a top notch director - fails spectacularly with his fourteenth film and the script by Joe "I Don't Know Anything About Women" Eszterhas is laughable.

It stars Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone (She's alone in the world, get the joke?), an ambitious young woman who has dreams of becoming a famous dancer in Las Vegas. Berkley's performance is something else. She smiles, she pouts, she shouts, she screams, she gyrates, she vomits, and often all of the above in the same scene. She is joined by Gina Gershon and Kyle MacLachlan, both similarly hamming it up to the extreme as Berkley's fellow dancer and the "Entertainment Director" respectively. Glenn Plummer also waves goodbye to any credibility in his performance as Berkley's quasi-love interest.

From reading this review you may wonder why I have given it five stars. The reason is this: You will never be more entertained in your life. It is hilarious, outrageous, ridiculous, completely unrealistic, shallow, stupid and ultimately a misunderstood masterpiece of everyone involved in the production doing everything wrong in perfect synchronicity.

The complete ignorance of all involved is obvious if you take a look at the Special Features on the DVD. If you watch the short making-of programme, the film is described by Eszterhas as "an all out rock and roll musical" which is unbelievable. First of all, the choreography of the dance scenes at the 'Goddess' show is ridiculous, there is no rock music in the film (apart from the song played over the end credits) and there are no songs in the film at all - so how is it a musical, you may ask?

A great piece of trash, go on, come over to the dark side!
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Risible/entertaining, sordid/hilarious , a travesty/perverse triumph, 29 Jul 2006
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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I've seen a lot of funny films- "Airplane" , "Spinal Tap", "Kingpin" The Life Of Brian"- to name a handful . But I don't think I have ever seen a film which made me laugh (at various points) as much as Showgirls. Even the Showgirls web-site describes it as unhinged but that goes nowhere near far enough in encapsulating what a deranged hypnotic miasma of pestilent acting and writing Showgirls is. I ,d call it the worst film I've ever seen but It's ludicrously entertaining and I have seen "Alone In The Dark".
Directed by Paul Verhoeven who likes his movies firstly to be violent but failing that to have lots of exposed female flesh, which I don't have a problem with, where Showgirls falls down is firstly in the script which if you were completely ignorant of the films conception you would assume was written by some hormonal fifteen year old with buck teeth and a complexion like a jogger running behind a gritter.
But no the pen( is) behind this abomination is Joe Eszterhas, the man who wrote the nearly as silly "Basic Instinct". Eszterhas is one of those writers who projects his prejudices and fantasies into his work to such an extent that ultimately that is all they are. The wet dreams of a frustrated Hollywood hack that can't get laid unless money changes hands. Trust me this man has a lot of money, he got paid $3 million for this penile leakage.

"Showgirls" is unrepentantly dim-witted and hopelessly misguided. Nomi is portrayed as some mythical sex goddess but played by the vacuous Berkley she is outshone by virtually all the dancers surrounding her in the beauty stakes. Verhoeven is too dazzled by the glitz and glamour to think of imbibing the film with any of the ferocious intelligence he brought to "Robocop" and Eszterhas is plainly a virulent misogynist which is one thing but $3 million for a script where people say the most obvious things all the time ( a woman shows Nomi her massive engagement ring, her partner turns to Nomi and says "Were getting Married" ...Gee I thought it meant they'd joined just received their Tesco club card) and everyone acts like a selfish imbecile? They say writers should write about what they know and Eszterhas obviously has. "Showgirls" is unremitting tripe. Sleazy, asinine and morally bankrupt. It is also wildly entertaining and very very funny, but for all the wrong reasons.Very much like it,s author, i guess it,s another of those coincedences at work
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16 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A tittilating film that guarantees a laugh, 11 Jun 2000
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This review is from: Showgirls [1995] [VHS] [1996] (VHS Tape)
I'm sorry, but I love this film. I think that after all the bad press, and people slating it for being too shallow, too stupid, too stereotypical....its time that someone stood up and said, fair enough, its shallow,stupid and stereotypical, but I LIKE IT! Ok, if you take it seriously you won't like it.However, if you're up for a laugh, some great dancing and a fantastic soundtrack (no really!) as well as some of the corniest lines ever imagined, well this film is for you. Its cheap, so buy it, sit down with a bunch of mates and prepare to bitch (her bum is really big, i wish i could eat burgers 24/7 etc) and laugh (pulling would be so much easier if I had a top that every time i did the chicken dance would parade my offerings..).If you hate it, well at least you've seen it and can agree next time someone says they think its trash, and if not, you can rewind, and start learning how to do that amazing thing with your left leg!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Complete trash
Even Kyle McLauchlan distanced himself from his role in this movie. It is nearly as bad as watching the last hour of Casino. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dmitri M. A. Hubbard

5.0 out of 5 stars A FANTASTICALLY MIS-UNDERSTOOD CLASSIC !
Cards on the table straight-away.
I LOVE this movie !
Always have done, ever since I first saw it years back. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Peter John Brown

4.0 out of 5 stars Misunderstood and underrated... probably
I should start with a caveat - I am a huge Verhoeven fan. His Hollywood films are some of my favourite film treats, and I have probably watched them more times than is healthy... Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2007 by Mark Angus

5.0 out of 5 stars unintentional fun
Be prepared ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see one of the worst films ever made. It has acting/direction/script better suited to the skills of a kids nativity... Read more
Published on 21 April 2003 by fionastarkey-norman

5.0 out of 5 stars SHOWTIME
Paul Verhoeven (director) (Robocop, Total Recall) & Joe Eszterhas (writer); the partnership that bought as 'Basic Instinct,' team up again to produce 'Showgirls. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2002 by rico@goldeneye.tv

5.0 out of 5 stars Trite, risible, cringe-making... a tour de force
This is, without question, the worst movie ever made. Worse even than the Cat From Outer Space or the seminally appalling Wild Women of Wonga. I kid you not. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Oooooh!
Very very nice indeed! I'm really into this sort of film where you get to see a bit of totty! This is a very sexy film and when you've got a tape of this in your cassette... Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to much
Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas, who respectively directed and scripted this load of old rubbish, previously collaborated on 'Basic Instinct', which was a much better picture... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2000 by Ben Elliss

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