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Dancing At The Blue Iguana
2000
This melancholy film explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana. None of them have it easy. Angel (Daryl Hannah) wishes she could take in a foster child or have a baby of her own - but her messy, dysfunctional existence makes this an impossible dream. Joe .. Read more
| Starring | Daryl Hannah, Sheila Kelley, Charlotte Ayanna, Elias Koteas |
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| Director | Michael Radford |
| Genres | Drama |
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Dancing At The Blue Iguana
This melancholy film explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana. None of them have it easy. Angel (Daryl Hannah) wishes she could take in a foster child or have a baby of her own - but her messy, dysfunctional existence makes this an impossible dream. Joe (Jennifer Tilly) is pregnant, but wants an abortion, and can barely keep her rage at the world contained. Jasmine (Sandra Oh) writes beautiful poetry on the side--but doesn't have the confidence to read her work aloud or take it seriously. Jesse (Charlotte Ayanna) looks for love but instead gets beaten by her boyfriend; and Stormy (Sheila Kelley) tries to forget the great love of her life: her brother.
Director Michael Radford won the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for his sensitive IL POSTINO in 1994. DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA was in part developed through improvisational workshops in which the actors helped to come up with their own characters and storylines for the film; this experimental preparatory work was then shaped into a screenplay by Mr. Radford. But the true focus of the film is on the dance sequences; each woman expresses her hopes and sorrows using her body to communicate her feelings.
| Starring | Daryl Hannah, Sheila Kelley, Charlotte Ayanna, Elias Koteas, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Tilly, Vladimir Mashkov, W. Earl Brown, Robert Wisdom |
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| Director | Michael Radford |
| Studio | CDA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 59 mins |
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| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Nov 2002 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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Although Michael Radford (Il Postino, White Mischief) undoubtedly has honourable intentions with his probing insight into the lives of Los Angeles strippers, the most credible scenes are those that feature the disrobing of his committed female cast. This ensemble drama, created through an improvisational workshop, has some shining performances, notably Daryl Hannah as the dizzy Angel and Jennifer Tilly's brassy Jo. However, there's nowhere near enough material for a full-length movie, particularly one whose “daytime” plot strands are so thinly drawn. There are some affecting moments (courtesy of budding poet Sandra Oh's story), but this too often veers from depressing authenticity to unconvincing caricature.
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Downbeat drama, based on a series of improvisational workshops, that bares bodies but not lives: its cast proffers stereotypes instead of realities.
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Don't Waste Your Money
This was a bizarre mix of bare breasts and Dynasty style melodrama which got more miserable minute by minute - unable to watch to the end.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Ghastly
The most ghastly film I have ever had the misfortune to see! It was physically discomfiting to sit through, and I admit I gave up after 40 odd minutes.
No plot, characters you care not a jot about, risible dialogue, poor continuity, execrable acting, and utterly tedious.
So why rent it? Curiosity got the better of me; Michael Radford has done good stuff in the past. Not this one.
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Dancing At The Blue Iguana
This melancholy film explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana. None of them have it easy. Angel (Daryl Hannah) wishes she could take in a foster child or have a baby of her own - but her messy, dysfunctional existence makes ...
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