Dancing at the Blue Iguana

The personal lives of five exotic dancers go under the microscope in this drama, the first American feature from director Michael Radford. Eddie (Robert Wisdom) is the manager of a strip club in suburban California known as the Blue Iguana, where he keeps an eye on the women who make their living ...more

The video box describes it as "from the director of Il Postino," but Dancing at the Blue Iguana is a far less sentimentally sweet delivery from Michael Radford. In fact, he's pretty much doing a 180, infiltrating the back rooms of strip clubs for a realistic and uncompromising probe into psychological scars as naked as the women. Radford may saturate the spectrum of issues facing girls who disrobe for money, but the film exceeds the level of scolding message movie or tawdry skin flick thanks to ...more