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What gets a movie the dread NC-17 rating these days? Normally the reasons children are forbidden to see films are explicit sex and spectacular spasms of violence. In the case of Showgirls, though, the list of no-nos might read, "Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck...
...first NC-17 movie to be widely released since the rating was devised in 1990, Showgirls opened last week on 1,388 screens. Though many newspapers typically do not run ads for NC-17 films, only a few (including the major dailies in Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas) refused to carry the Showgirls pitches. United Artists' high box-office hopes were stoked by avid interest in a teaser cassette in video stores, and by a million visitors a day to the Showgirls Website...
Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
Screenwriter JOE ESZTERHAS is a family-minded man. After all, his wife had his fourth child just last Thursday. And he thinks his new movie, Showgirls, starring ELIZABETH BERKLEY, is fine family fare even though it's rated NC-17. "Not to allow high school kids to hear a very moral message simply because it's set in the world of nude dancing is just pious nonsense," says Eszterhas, who suggests teens use fake IDs to get in. Many kids no doubt appreciate the tip, but Motion Picture Association of America head Jack Valenti doesn't. He told USA Today...
...attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...