Lap Dancing

'Lap Dancing' delivers the goods as indicated by the less than subtle title, but someone needed to remind writer / director Mike Sedan he was making a T&A flick and not an episode of 'This is Your Life'. Cliches are laid on so thick it's hard to not laugh at times. They don't get in the way of enjoying the gracious amount of female flesh here, but riveting story this is not. No stranger to this genre or taking their clothes off, Tane McClure and late model Lorissa McComas headline.

Small town girl Angie (McComas) wants to be a big time actress, but finds out it's not that easy in LA. Dejected after a failed audition roommate Claudia (McClure) offers up exotic dancing just like her. Best case scenario she'll develop life experience that may help acting and worst she'll pay the bills. After getting comfortable will this be Angie's ticket to something better or does it all end in failure.

In the plus column both McComas and McClure look great and know how to move their bodies. Through lap dances, stage show strips that actually show a degree of dance skill these two show off their assets as do other dancers at the club. Whenever that be on the main stage itself as focus or in any number of shots down on the floor working over customers. Of course those requisite simulated sex scenes are here of which Lorissa has two and another stripper has one. Happy to see muff make a few appearances here too (unrated cut?).

Low points include the opening montage as our main girl walks Hollywood boulevard complete with a soft rock ballad that's fairly sappy. Follow-up scene at the casting agency just as bad, but leave room for cringe dialog with fellow strippers. Particularly a piece when one is questioned why she hooks outside of the club for money and gets offended assuming she's being made out to be a cliche. After a brief pause she follows thru with her story confirming in fact she is a cliche. LOL!

In hindsight wish I had seen 'Lap Dancing' back in the 90's when it came out. This is a solid T&A pic that delivers a real level of heat. It probably would have blown my young mind back then. It's stuck with a vapid story that tried too hard to elicit real emotions, but even that's good for a laugh. If you ever wanted to know why a blind man would hang out at a titty bar this answers that question and Tane who has a legitimate background in singing gets the chance to do it here.

My jaw almost dropped when I saw this film--The film actually delivered on what was implied in the title and more! Except for some fairly straight forward background material: Small town girl from Kansas, really Omaha, can't get arrested as an actress, so her friend gets her a job in a strip / lap dancing bar. Lo and behold, while in the club, about 25 - 33 percent of the time, a bunch of gorgeous, silicone enhanced girls are either lap dancing or stripping, mostly topless and in thongs, sometime nude!

This movie is billed as a "Flash Dance for the sensuous nineties". But not surprisingly, virtually no originality is shown in any of the dance / strip routines--although the level of staging and performance is surprisingly above par for a film at this apparent budget level.

It is more of a "Flesh Dance for the vacuous nineties".

I do look forward to seeing more from this production company, as they show a little bit more sophistication in editing out sex scenes to avoid the dreaded NC-17(R).

Lorissa McComas stars as Angie, an aspiring actress trying to make it in Hollywood. She just landed a screen test for her first movie, but it requires she strip down to nothing on camera, something she's never done before. Instead of waiting tables like many other aspiring actresses, she gets a job at a strip club so she can learn to be more comfortable with her clothes off in public. Two veteran strippers show her the ropes, the ups and the downs, and the reality of being in the business. There's plenty of naked women and a few sex scenes, including two with Angie in them, but this movie falls flat in many areas. It's not bad enough to call a failure, but it's not good enough to be put in the B-movie elite. Therefore, this is the first movie I give a normal C to.....no plus, no minus, just a C. Cinemax should be running this, give it a quick look during your normal channel surfing activities.

While the plot and production values are average for the genre, Lorissa McComas is not only breathtaking to watch (critical for this genre!), but shows that her acting ability is above-average as well with a truly heartfelt performance. Tane McClure gives a great performance as well, and shows off her talents as a truly gifted singer. All else being average, these two make it worth a watch.

This is the story of Angie, an innocent in H'wood who, in order to shed her inhibitions and win a starring role in a sexy movie, must learn to shed her clothes in a strip club. This movie should not be used as a recruiting tool for ingenues.

Tane' McClure and Kim Dawson are the two strippers who help Angie (McCommass, as lovely a young lady as has ever been naked on screen) discover her unrealized erotic potential. Both tend to go over the top a bit, but given the surreal nature of their characters and the situation, why not? Director Mike Sedan gives them their head (that's a horse term, not a sex term, folks); he's busy making sure the camera catches all the action. And there's plenty of it, onstage, backstage, in the club patrons' laps (thus the title), out in the alley, in a grocery store on the way home, and at whatever other locales I've forgotten.

Taken at its own level, this is a well-made cautionary tale about what you have to do to succeed in show biz. The fact that it's balderdash doesn't matter.