A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.A mysterious young drifter who calls herself Nomi Malone hitches a ride to Las Vegas, where she finds work as a stripper and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 10 nominations
Melinda Songer Soderling
- Nicky
- (as Melinda Songer)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaWhen the film swept the 16th Annual RAZZIE Awards, Paul Verhoeven turned up in person to accept Worst Director and Worst Picture. He was the first director to ever turn up to collect the award.
- GoofsDuring the infamous pool-sex scene, there are several shots in which it can be plainly seen that Zack is still wearing white underwear.
- Alternate versionsThe Indian version was heavily cut by the CBFC to remove approximately 22 minutes with the run time of 106 mins (CFL/3/8/2002-MUM). In 2004, the film was further cut of 34 seconds (CFL/3/40/2004-MUM).
- A black woman showing her breasts.
- All close-up shots of bare breasts of a dancer.
- A black woman fixing up the blouse of a dancer while she is sitting on a dressing table and her breast is seen.
- Naomi rubbing her back with black man while dancing.
- A black man follows Naomi and the dialogue "Motherfucker and you hurt my dick".
- A close-up of bare breasts and a fat woman popping out her breasts.
- The line "You did not bleed everywhere, did you"?
- A woman dancing around the pole.
- Naomi in the dancing room, bare breasts and wiping herself.
- A man and a woman watching Naomi dancing in a private room.
- Naomi dancing and showing her breasts.
- All shots of nude women.
- A woman dancing with her breasts showing.
- Two women dancing around a pole.
- Dance director rejecting a girl by saying "What is it? Is it watermelon"?
- Three women questioned by dance director to remove their bra and asked Naomi.
- Naomi running while her breasts are shown.
- A black man and Naomi dancing.
- Before dance, a man offers Naomi ice cubes.
- Bare breasted woman coming down from the staircase.
- Black man and Naomi outside the club.
- Naomi and Crystal together on floor.
- Three dancers pinching a black man.
- A nude woman walking towards a swimming pool, a man pouring champagne on the head of Naomi and the two kissing.
- Close-up of a bare breasted woman in dance sequence, a man undressing and the entire dance sequence.
- Naomi pushing Crystal from the staircase.
- A man trying to overpower a black woman.
- Naomi kicking a man.
- Visuals of Crystal's back pose and all visuals of other girls dancing.
- Visuals and dialogue of Naomi saying "Fuck you".
- Visuals and dialogue of James to Naomi "Shit happens. That what I get fucking wisdom".
- Visuals of bare buttocks of Naomi at the end of a dance sequence.
- Visuals and dialogue of Loudmouth to Naomi "Can I suck your tits?".
- Visuals of bare buttocks of a female dancer before entering a booth.
- Visuals of Naomi touching her panties as the she dances in front of Jack.
- Visuals and dialogue of Jack to Naomi "Fuck. Oh, fuck" and "Fucking".
- Sequence of group dancing are in semi-nude.
- Make-up room Molly is in semi-nude..
- Naomi in semi-nude while fighting with the villain.
- Deleted the visuals of Naomi the negro on the the private part
- Deleted the visuals of topless girls in the dance sequence.
- Deleted the visuals of Naomi dancing on the pole.
- Deleted the dialogue "I want to see our ass...shit" said by long haired drunk to Naomi.
- Reduced by 50% the girl shown in black bikini in the swimming pool.
- Deleted the visuals of kissing between Naomi and Crystal in hospital.
- SoundtracksDoin' What I Did
Written and Performed by Dwight Yoakam
Courtesy of Reprise Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
No, it isn't a great, or terribly good, movie. I've certainly seen worse. And it is certainly too bad that this seemed to ruin Elizabeth Berkley's career. I didn't find her acting to be all that bad. I think that she was a victim to her role. She might not have had the star power or charisma to overcome a bad role, but I think she played it exactly the way Verhoeven wanted. Not sure that the nudity was a problem either, as I don't recall 1995 being all that puritanical. The rest of the acting was OK, too. I've never been a fan of Kyle MacLachland, but his skeevy smarminess was well-suited to his character. Gina Gershon seemed to have great fun chewing the scenery. No, the problem with the film was that every character was intensely dislikeable. (With the exception of Gina Rivera's Molly character) The exposition of Nomi's problems came way toward the end of the movie, when it was really too late to give her a break for all of her previous behavior. I think most of the blame for this being a poorer movie than it needed to be was Eszterhas's.
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- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Showgirls: Lo prohibido
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,350,754
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,112,627
- Sep 24, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $20,363,461
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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