Article: DEMI MOORE'S STAR STRUT ISN'T SEXY OR SUBSTANTIAL.(What's Happening)(Review)

In the lively but mostly mediocre sex farce, ``Striptease,'' Demi Moore plays an out-of-work Miami mother who becomes a stripper to finance a custody battle for her young daughter.

She doesn't much like the work, and she isn't a bit interested in sex of any kind (neither is the movie), but she will do what she must do to keep her child out of the hands of her pill-popping, career-criminal husband (Robert Patrick).

All told, she's just about the most breathlessly noble character we've had in a Hollywood movie so far this year: a regular Mother Walton victimized by a global conspiracy of slobbering, leering male yahoos who, of course, she finally outwits. ...

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