Showgirls

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One of the most derided movies of the 20th century is also one of its most spectacularly misunderstood. The odd-couple tag team of Dutch provocateur director Paul Verhoeven (ROBOCOP, ELLE) and Sleazoid-Hungarian-American writer Joe Eszterhas (FLASHDANCE, SLIVER) first came together with 1992's BASIC INSTINCT, and everyone, including the financial backers and the producer/distributors of this movie, assumed lightning would strike twice for the duo with 1995's SHOWGIRLS. Universally panned by critics upon its initial release, people found the multi-tap combo of inane dialogue, wild over-acting, and extreme obscenity and grotesquerie to be just too much. Then the "so-bad-it's-good" crowd sunk t

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