Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Direction
Soderbergh shoots Tampa like a humid fever dream of broken dreams.
Acting
McConaughey's Dallas is a cult leader in a thong — terrifying, magnetic.
Writing
Tatum's real stripper past bleeds into every cynical, lived-in detail.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tatum developed this from his own 8-month stripping stint in Florida at age 19; the 'Pony' routine was his actual signature move.
Soderbergh shot this himself as 'Peter Andrews' and edited as 'Mary Ann Bernard' — his go-to pseudonyms when he wants total control without studio interference.
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