Wolff rating: FAIR
Plot summary: Mother, forced into stripping due to economic problems, ends up dealing with a crooked politician to get custody of her child.
Biased, pithy comments: I'm not an unbiased observer of this movie; I loved the Carl Hiaasen book (though some of his other books are better than this one) and expected this film to follow it. It actually does follow the book tightly plotwise, but misses the sardonic mood of the writing and instead uses Erin's relationship with her daughter as a sympathetic, emotional force. No, no, no, I say---that's just a plot device to expose the sexless futility of the lives of exotic dancers. The movie glamourizes stripping (especially by hiring top-notch professional strippers to back up Moore) instead of downplaying it, and as a result screws up the thematic motion of the book. Is this bad? Well, it sucked the life out of a series of funny ideas, so I'm guessing that it was.
Other Notes: You can spot the splice moments for the expensive rush-job new ending that the producers added when test audiences actually liked Reynold's amusingly perverse congressman.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Pandora Peakes.