Striptease (film)
Striptease is a 1996 American erotic comedy film directed, produced, and written by Andrew Bergman, and stars Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds and Ving Rhames. The film is based on Carl Hiaasens novel of the same name, and is about a stripper who becomes involved in both a childcustody dispute and corrupt politics.
The film revolves around former FBI secretary Erin Grant, who loses custody of her young daughter Angela Rumer Willis to her exhusband Darrell, who is a criminal and cost Erin her job. To afford an appeal to get her daughter back, Erin becomes a stripper at the Eager Beaver, a Miami strip club. A Congressman named David Dilbeck visits the club and immediately begins to adore Erin. Aware of Dilbecks embarrassing indulgences, another Eager Beaver patron approaches Erin with a plan to manipulate the congressman to settle the custody battle and help her get Angela back. However, Dilbeck has powerful business connections who want to ensure he remains in office. Consequently, those who can embarrass him in an election are murdered. Meanwhile, Erin retrieves her daughter from Darrells negligent care.Dilbecks personal interest in Erin persists, and she is invited to perform privately for him. He asks her to become his lover and later his wife, despite his staffs concerns that she knows too much. A debate occurs as to whether to kill Erin or simply keep her quiet by threatening to take away her daughter. However, Erin and a police officer Armand Assante begin to suspect the congressmans guilt in the murders, and Erin concocts a plan to bring the congressman to justice. She tricks him into confessing on tape, and he is soon after arrested. Thus, Erin regains full custody of Angela, gets her job in the FBI back, and retires from stripping, and Darrell returns to prison after he is convicted of his crimes. ........
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