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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 25, 2001
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly & Sheila Kelley | |
Performer: | Sandra Oh, Charlotte Ayanna, Vladimir Mashkov, Elias Koteas, Robert Wisdom & W. Earl Brown | |
Directed by | Michael Radford | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Radford & David Linter | |
Composition by | Tal Bergman & Renato Neto | |
Produced by | Michael Radford, Damian Jones, Ram Bergman & Dana Lustig | |
Director of Photography: | Ericson Core |
Entertainment Reviews:
Too often the uneven script is either hopelessly strained or tediously lackadaisical.
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Film Journal International
...DANCING AT THE BLUE IGUANA boasts a number of unusually well-acted scenes...
Sight and Sound
Rating: C- --
There's a lot of tepid exotic dancing as the girls' writhe and slither around the pole.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Always a more interesting acting exercise than compelling drama.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Even if Dancing at the Blue Iguana can't rise to the level of the performances of Hannah, Oh and others, it is nonetheless engaging, not without humor and an aura of authenticity.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Mostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease.
New York Post
Rating: 2.5/5 --
After a full hour of Iguana I was watching the DVD counter tick by in slow motion.
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
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 (Darryl 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.
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.
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