Striptease (1996) Poster

(1996)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for nudity, erotic dancing and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • In the first brief exotic dancing scene, a woman is seen dancing with her top hanging fully open, exposing her nipples. Other women dancing on stage at the same time are shown topless, wearing only skimpy thong buttocks.
  • Demi Moore has several exotic dancing scenes in the movie: three in the club, two at a private venue, and one at home. There is brief, topless nudity in two of them.
  • A woman dances for about three minutes in a skimpy, transparent outfit, then she then removes the bra, dancing topless for a further half minute or so.

Violence & Gore

  • One man attacks another on a stage, hitting him with a champagne bottle and knocking him out.
  • At one point Demi Moore's character has a knife held to her throat by her ex husband in a very threatening manner.
  • A man pulls another mans arm out of a car window and twists, breaking it.
  • A dead man is shown in a morgue. His face is shown and it was chewed up by crabs in the water.
  • A man is knocked out with a rock offscreen - he is later shown lying there unconscious with a bloody head.
  • A man is knocked out with a club. he is shown later with a bloody head.

Profanity

  • Not Too bad

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Demi Moore walks on stage while smoking as part of her show.
  • Much of the movie is shot in a strip club, where many of the patrons are shown drinking alcohol and smoking.
  • In other scenes, characters pour single social drinks for themselves.
  • Two of the main characters are shown heavily intoxicated, multiple times each. In one of the two cases, the character is stoned on a combination of alcohol and "wolf morphine" misappropriated from a veterinary prescription; this character is shown weaving dangerously in a stolen car on a busy highway.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is in the driver's seat of a car when a man rises up from the backseat, grabs her, and holds a knife to her throat. He backs up his physical threat with verbal threats.
  • Several characters threaten others with guns. Shots are fired in one scene, but no one is hit.
  • There's a scene where a python starts strangling a stripper that should be a tense scene, but it's played for laughs.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • In Ms. Moore's first stripping scene, she is interrupted before she can remove her top by one club patron attacking another.
  • A prepubescent girl is watching curiously while peeking past the curtain blocking the backstage passage. The girl also sees another dancer topless backstage.
  • The second private performance from a female character is interrupted by plot developments.

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