The Chippendales Murder (2000) (TV)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Eric Bross

Writer (WGA):

Richard DeLong Adams (written by)

Release Date:

7 November 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

The true story of Steve Banjerlee who started a sleazy male strip club for woman. Several years later he meets Nick De Noia...

Plot Keywords:

Beefcake | Striptease Male | Based On True Story

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Steve Banerjee
Paul Hipp	...	Nicholas 'Nick' De Noia
Alex DeBoe	...	Shaun Boyd
Dan Horton	...	Dave
Victor Webster	...	Marco Carolo
Tony Curtis Blondell	...	Scotty
Christopher Bondy	...	Stan Laramie (as Chris Bondy)
Kaela Dobkin	...	Carol O'Hare
James E. Moriarty	...	Carl Ramone (as James Moriarty)
Natalie Radford	...	Irene
Roman Podhora	...	Sgt. Sampson (as Roman Padhora)
Michael Kremko	...	Bouncer
Tony Ranaudo	...	Dancer #3 (as Tony Ranudo)
Matt Sergott	...	Dancer #4
John Cook	...	Dancer #5

Runtime:

Brazil:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M (DVD rating) | Australia:MA (cable rating)

It's not about male strippers, it's about greed.

I wish this movie wasn't known as being about male strippers, because I feel that isn't the focus at all-which sounds strange I know since this movie highlights the lives of the makers of the historical "Chippendales" male stripper revue. I had the chance to see this quite awhile ago and what I took away from it had nothing to do with buff men shaking their -well-you get the point.

This story is about greed. It's about the slow disintegration and corruption of a human being(steve bannerjee) who had the world at his fingetips and let it all go to become a slave to money, power, greed, hate and paranoia.

This is a true story of a guy that plotted to kill former workers because they wanted to make a living doing the same thing he did.It really drives home the point of how money and power can make a person crazy. This is a true story and I'm sure anyone who watches this will want to shower when their done because the story is a sleezy one but it isn't a lightweight movies about male strippers, its more of a character study of a sad and pitiful human being. The film had its flaws, it did drag at times, certain parts were almost unreasonably boring(it IS a tv movie)-the only thing I can say to justify watching it is I like character studies and this is definetly that. I think it should probebly have been done a bit better, script was a bit weak. Nonethelss, it succeeded in its casting, it was very well acted-forget about the men dancing and shaking about and concentrate on the story of what greed and money can make of a person.