Gia Coppola directs Pamela Anderson, Dave Bautista and Billie Lourd in this character study where a middle-aged Las Vegas showgirl is faced with an uncertain future after learning her long running cabaret show is closing.

The stunt casting of Anderson is the least noteworthy thing here. She is more than capable of inhabiting the character study but the part really tries to cash in on her faded notoriety and timeless beauty rather than developing her internally beyond the first act introduction. It is a shapeless movie that just kinda happens, even the revelations and experiment feel like the guaranteed motions. As a mood piece, Gia Coppola shows promise. This proves just as sensory an experience as you’d hope from the third generation nepo auteur. Bautista and Lourd are strong in roles where they both feel sort of miscast. Well done them for powering through. There is scope to criticise the slumming it camp of the setting and melodrama. What does anyone involved know about poverty, failure, diminishing choices? Yet they all pantomime the vibe surprisingly well.

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Perfect Double Bill: Raw Justice (1994)

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