![]() ![]() We meet the fellow strippers, including the buxom Urbana Sprawl (PandoraPeaks), who is named after my hometown and so of course deserves a mentionhere. As “Striptease” opens, custody of Erin's childis being given over to her worthless husband ( Robert Patrick), who may be aconvicted criminal but was, as the Florida judge recalls fondly, “a greattailback.” Erin needs work and starts stripping at the Eager Beaver, a “gentleman'sclub”-so called because most of its customers are never called one anywhereelse. Myguess is that when Demi Moore and the writers started musing about how ErinGrant would “really feel” in a situation, or how the audience would be able to “identify”with her mother's urge to win her child back, someone should have stepped in togently say: It's a comedy, honey, and when it's not a comedy, it's a satire.Everything in this movie should be for laughs, including the ex-husband, thekids and the brave Erin Grant. When youextract one of those characters from the mix and treat her seriously, it throwsoff the timing and it undermines the rationale of the whole undertaking. They were all part of the same comic world. ![]() The point of the Hiaasen story was that everyonewas funny: He cast a dubious eye on the strippers, the bar management, thecustomers, the sex-mad congressman, the sneaky sugar baron, Erin'sex-husband-on everyone. That throws a wet blanketover the rest of the party. The movie's fatal flawis to treat her like a plucky Sally Field heroine. Thewoman is brave, heroic and stacked, but she's not funny. Her character,named Erin Grant, is a woman who has lost her daughter in a crooked custodybattle, and goes to work in a strip club to earn enough to win her child back. Now here is the Demi Moore movie version, in whichall of the characters are hilarious except for Demi Moore's. Carl Hiaasen's “Striptease” was a novel that thought all of itscharacters were hilarious. ![]()
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