The Last Showgirl
Drama by Gia Coppola – granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola – about a dancer in her 50s who comes to a turning point in her life when her show in Las Vegas is suddenly ended. With a surprising lead role by Pamela Anderson.
Most films set in Las Vegas centre on the high-wattage neon glow of The Strip. But Gia Coppola turns that tradition around, showing us a story from behind the lights, with a captivating and affecting lead performance by Pamela Anderson.
Shelley (Pamela Anderson) has been a Las Vegas showgirl for over thirty years, the feather and crystal-adorned centrepiece of Sin City’s last remaining traditional floor show. The stage and the women she shares it with are her loving, bickering, family. When the stage manager Eddie announces the show will close permanently in two weeks, Shelley and her co-workers must make decisions for their future. But the future looks different when you are 50 rather than 20, and your sole job skill is dancing.
Emotionally floundering, Shelley tries to reconnect with a daughter she hardly knows, which proves just as difficult as losing the only job she has ever had. Bolstered by her best friend Annette (wonderfully played by Jamie Lee Curtis), a brash cocktail waitress who laughs a little too loud and too often, Shelley must find her place in a world that she shut the door on years before. (source: www.tiff.net)