Young Nomi hitches to Las Vegas to become a dancer, but she finds only work stripping and lap-dancing in a club. Nomi manages to join the most extravagant erotic cabaret as understudy of her big rival Cristal, but her past keeps hunting her and eventually she leaves Las Vegas.


Books with substantial mentioning of Showgirls

Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers
Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven
Amsterdam, 2014

James Robert Parish
Fiasco, A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops
2006

Linda Ruth Williams
The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema
Edinburgh, 2005

Beth A. Fhaner and Christopher P. Scanlon (eds.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1996, 15th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1995
Detroit; New York; Toronto; London, 1996

Articles on Showgirls

Linda Ruth Williams, Nothing to find, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 1996 pp. 28-30

Reviews

Claire Monk, Showgirls, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 1996 pp. 51-52