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Showgirls (1995)

5.6 IMDb 24% RT 25/100 MC
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Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.

Best Release

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc), the subtitles on the initial release has some issues.

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Director

Paul Verhoeven

Genre

Drama

Sub-Genre

Social Drama

Box Office

$20,350,754

Runtime

2 hours and 11 minutes (131 minutes)

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Editor's Notes

Note

Vinegar Syndrome's director-approved 4K restoration from Verhoeven's own color grade. Las Vegas neon, casinos, and stage costumes were made for HDR. People who dismissed Showgirls for years have been coming around to it as legitimate Verhoeven, on par with RoboCop and Starship Troopers for his fans. The NC-17 version is the definitive cut. Vinegar Syndrome would never edit that stuff out.

noted Apr 9, 2026

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movies where the Blu-ray is just as good or better than the 4k counterpart 273 Showgirls looks and sounds fantastic on 4k. Paul Verhoeven, Vinegar Syndrome, 1995. 16 The holy trinity of Verhoeven 4K action blockbusters (and my first Steelbook) 10 Vinegar Syndrome Showgirls 4K 12 Showgirls (1995) Misunderstood even by some of its defenders as merely a satire of American greed and attendant dreams of stardom when its true target is the apparatus that sells those dreams to an endlessly returning audience of narcissistic suckers. 7

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