KISS OF FIRE (aka CLAUDINE'S RETURN)
PLOT-A guy gets involved with a pretty laundry girl who also happens to be a stripper.
VIOLENCE-Nothing to tell grandma about..
SEX/NUDITY-In the strip club scenes, you see some naked dancers in the background.
WHY I RENTED IT-In my opinion, MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN was and will always be the best television show ever. I followed it from beginning to end. Like many fans of the show, I was absolutely nuts about Christina Applegate. I was in middle school when the show was in its prime, and I had a huge "Kelly Bundy" poster on my bedroom wall. Sadly, the show was cancelled years later, and life went on. I quit watching television after that, having no reason to tune in. Christina has continued to work steadily in movies and on the tube, and she's proved herself to be quite an actress. This is one of the only movies she's ever got star billing in. It's her on the cover alone. But, I must confess, the #1 reason I rented it was to see Christina "Kelly Bundy" Applegate play a stripper. I'm far from being hung up on adolescent fantasies, but the idea of seeing her in such a role was interesting.
WHY I HATED IT-And why probably everyone else that rents it will hate it too...this is the first movie I've ever seen that tries to sell a movie about a stripper, describing it as "erotic", but contains NO NUDE SCENES of the star. You'd be right to feel cheated, as I did. Christina's acting is superb, and she's the only thing good about the movie. As a stripper, she dances a total of 2 times in the movie. And in only one of these very very short scenes does she take anything off. In other words, the picture of her on the video box represents as far as things go. That's all you see. Why the movie was rated R is beyond me. I've seen racier shit on the USA network.
NOTES-This movie was made in 1998 under the title CLAUDINE'S RETURN, but was released summer 2000 on video by Miramax. Why they put out this movie is beyond me, especially when they own the rights to so many good movies that they continue to leave gathering dust.