The Rise and Fall of Showgirls

showgirls came in second at the box office behind David Fincher's seven showgirls was immediately branded as the bomb of the century an embarrassment that was unforgivable three weeks later came the release of another Esther Haas film Jade starring Linda Fierantino from the last seduction and directed by William Friedkin. Verhoeven for his part has said that before the reviews came in quote I thought it was perfect otherwise I would have changed it you never see anything like it anymore something so outrageous but very well filmed with a combination of borrowed Miss and Seen and extremely deliberate and sometimes extravagant production design on a craft level Showgirls is undeniably closer to a classic MGM musical than it is to pornography