Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

jgrayson_au I taped this like any good Australian male seeing something advertised with Nudity on SBS (Special Broadcasting Service, world channel). Having been used to getting such great films as the Weather Girl and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, how could I go wrong with Live Nude Girls Unite!?I did. The titillation factor went clear out the window when I started getting really ticked at how these beautiful (in all ways), intelligent women were being handled like a commodity. I started rooting (ahem) for them, wishing their union on, wanting to start my own strip club so I can run it properly!Such is the skill of a good documentary. Yes I'll admit the film quality isn't going to put Dreamworks out of business, but the girls struggles to have decent work ethics is astonishing.See it, not for titillation, but to watch the underdog struggle. It's good watching the oppressed win, and this has it in truckloads.

molefsky This film relates the efforts of "exotic dancers" at a San Francisco establishment called The Lusty Lady to organize a labor union and improve their working conditions.The narrator and central character is Julia Query, a feminist, Jewish, lesbian, stand-up comic, who turned to stripping to make ends meet. The film relates the conditions the strippers worked under, how they decided to organize the union and negotiated their first contract. The club apparently engaged in arbitrary and discriminatory practices, for example, classifying the dancers by race, hair color and other physical attributes. Negotiating the first contract took many months and the film shows the agony of making decisions on what was and was not negotiable.On the one hand the dancers do have legitimate grievances, on the other the work they do is sleazy and some would say antisocial and not to be encouraged. While their working conditions are not ideal, they are not coal miners or migrant workers. Compared to some other jobs, strippers have it pretty easy.Another plot line of the film is Julia's relationship with her mother. Her mother is a physician in New York, who as it happens, works with prostitutes. Julia has not told her mother what she does for a living. When Julia is asked to speak at a conference on the "sex industry" she discovers her mother will also be at the conference and she can no longer put off revealing her occupation to her mother. Needless to say, her mother is not at all pleased and the two become estranged for some months.The film has moments of humor and drama. The production values are amateurish, in some scenes the color is off (although that could have been due to the poor quality of the print). The film contain adult language and nudity.

Lawston_Found Believe it or not, `Live Nude Girls Unite!' is a true, funny and heartfelt mother-daughter story! I saw the film at it's world premiere in San Francisco in the spring of 2000, and I still find myself thinking about it occasionally. It follows a group of dancers at a San Francisco strip club, `The Lusty Lady', as they work and fight to become the world's first unionized sex workers. This is interesting given that The Lusty Lady (TLL), is `women owned and operated', and the customers use coin machines to pay to view the dancers behind glass, so there's no tipping for physical contact between dancers and customers. Under these conditions, you'd think the dancers should have few complaints and no compelling reasons to organize. (Typically dancers pay the clubs a high fee to perform, relying on customer tips for their actual wages, especially tips in exchange for sex). I mean if you've decided to be an exotic dancer, you could be exposed to much worse conditions, right?Central to the documentary is the story of Julia, a stand-up comedian and one-half of the producing/directing team making the film. Julia has decided to take the opportunity to capture on film her mother's reaction to the news that Julia is an exotic dancer at TLL. Beyond the concern or even horror such a revelation would bring any parent, Julia's mother has seen the worst the sex industry has to offer. She's a physician and advocate for the rights of street prostitutes!Quite contrary to other user comments, I found the film VERY INTERESTING and applaud the incredible will it took Julia to confront her mother on film, as this event is CRUCIAL TO THE STORY. That moment has the potential to devolve into a Jerry Springer shouting match, but there is a trust and shared intelligence between this mother and her daughter, and they will persevere.Keep in mind that one of the film makers is a professional comedian, and this is a hilarious film. (One of the funniest moments in the film is some footage borrowed from a popular television news magazine of Julia's mother entertaining and informing a national media figure on her crusade). I highly recommend this documentary.

SirManiac I would start off by telling you that if you read my review, it might spoil the movie but then I would have to mention that there is nothing to spoil because it's already rotten but I have to tell you that a spoiler is included or the IMDB may ban my account or something and for this movie, it's not worth the risk. I originally went to see the movie because I was thinking "Ohhh! Naked women! Cool!" even though a fellow filmmaker told me not to because it was bad. Not only was he right, I think I can honestly say that this movie has changed my perspective on nudity. Until I saw this movie, I thought that nudity could always be cool but this movie isn't interesting even though it shows naked women. How can naked women not make the movie at least partially interesting in places? See this movie and find out! I still can't understand how naked women weren't interesting in this movie and I'm an artist! Their POV was interesting enough to keep my heart rate at a steady 40 while I slowly slipped into a coma but that's about it. I still can't get over this movie, naked women - not interesting! How?! This movie is worse than Party At Kitty and Stud's, that soft core porno that Sly Stallone was in but not by much. The thing I kept saying to myself while watching this movie was "You're strippers in a cheap scummy strip parlor and you don't know why you are treated like crap? You don't understand that stripping is an industry where blonde females are in the highest demand across all markets and yet you brunettes fight for equal rights with crappy arguments in the strip club? I understand that you want to be treated well but ... could you have made a worse movie to show your point of view? I may agree with the POV of the movie but the horrible productions values, cinematography shooting into a mirror at herself, terrible audio and even worse lighting, gee whiz! This is the kind of movie that reminds people of why garbage like Star Wars: Episode 1 Phantom Menace has a following. At least Lucas knows how to make a movie unlike the filmmaker of Live Nude Girls Unite. The movie is layed out like this. Introduce the strip club and the strippers. Show the facility. Introduce what they don't like about the facility. Describe the hopeless situation. Watch as the strippers try to take a stand. Watch as the strippers win a small battle and get a little of what they have been griping about the entire movie. See how happy the strippers are now that they are the envy of strippers everywhere. This movie may have been interesting if it was only about 20 minutes long but it was about an hour longer which makes the whole thing drag out to the point that you just don't care about what is going on. Any movie that shows naked women that are not interesting for any reason should certainly not be released. It is garbage like this that makes me really worried about what could happen if the strikes go through. These kind of filmmakers would probably go on to do worse junk and this one was bad enough! If it were possible to die of boredom, this movie would have so many lawsuits on the filmmaker and everyone else that was involved that everyone would be put away for life+. Yes, people have the right to free speech in this country but to make a movie that is longer than an hour long and this terrible of expression is a horrible waste of such a great amendment. Don't see this movie! I think I would rather eat a package of cotton with no drink than see even the first 10 minutes again and that was the part with the naked women in it!