Stripper

The title tells all in Stripper. This purported docudrama of life on the girlie-show circuit aims directly below the navel in pursuit of a “core” audience. Real life strippers Janette Boyd, Sara Costa, Kimberly Holcomb et. al. attractively go through the motions of their day-to-day professional existence, spouting obviously pre-scripted ad-libs. The climax is a Las Vegas strip-tease contest, an entertaining if uninspired set piece that lasts nearly ten minutes. Stripper offers us a wisp of a storyline, but it never gets in the way of what its audience has paid to see., Behind the scenes at the inaugural Strippers Convention in Las Vegas, 1983, with revealing profiles of several competitors. Directed by Jerome Gary, who worked on “Pumping Iron.” Janette Boyd, Sara Costa, Kimberly Holcomb, Loree Menton.