Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Through the lens of the strip club,this film reveals lifestyle of girl inside and out, on and back to show the story behind the dance
20 February 1964, Newport Beach, California, USA
16 September 1958, Harbor City, California, USA
16 December 1969, New York City, New York, USA
5 December 1972, Taos, New Mexico, USA
20 December 1963, Karachi, Pakistan
14 September 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
27 November 1963, Tula, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
10 September 1960, Agoura, California, USA
3 January 1959, London, England, UK
1974, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
19 April 1971, San Mateo, California, USA
3 December 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 April 1966, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
11 March 1961, Montréal, Québec, Canada
23 July 1969, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
26 November 1966, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
21 September 1922, USA
28 May 1967, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
October 28, 2001
The film's a mess, albeit a fascinating one.
October 19, 2001
The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people.
October 19, 2001
A beautifully downbeat view of the dancers and their coworkers' as they spiral lower and lower.
December 29, 2001
After a full hour of Iguana I was watching the DVD counter tick by in slow motion.
October 19, 2001
Mostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease.
January 02, 2002
There's a lot of tepid exotic dancing as the girls' writhe and slither around the pole.
October 19, 2001
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.
October 20, 2001
A predictable exercise in fake tawdriness and half-nude psychodrama.
December 09, 2001
Too often the uneven script is either hopelessly strained or tediously lackadaisical.
October 19, 2001
More than anything, Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an acting showcase that allows its stars to strut their emotional range.
January 04, 2002
Always a more interesting acting exercise than compelling drama.
October 21, 2001
This, I suppose, is what happens when a director allows his actors to put together a movie -- it's sort of like letting the inmates run the asylum.
