Trailer
Assistive Technologies

Showgirls

Runtime
2hrs 8mins
Directed by
Paul Verhoeven
Featuring
Elizabeth Berkley,
Gina Gershon,
Kyle MacLachlan
Body

Unbound by musty notions of “good taste,” Showgirls goes farther than any other film of the 1990s in its orgiastic depiction of consumerism, crass spectacle, and the dark side of the American Dream.

Elizabeth Berkley (in a tour de force of hysterical excess) stars as Nomi, a tough-as-nails drifter with a go-it-alone attitude and a murky past, who arrives in Las Vegas and sets about trampling on everyone around her—including Gina Gershon’s evil-seductive nightclub diva—as she fights her way up from stripper in a sleazy club to star showgirl. With its deliciously overripe dialogue and nigh-unhinged performances, Showgirls is both a delirious star-is-born satire and a terrifying vision of capitalism’s corruption of the soul. 

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