Ferrara indulges himself with lots of scenes of women taking their clothes off particularly Melanie Griffith who never seemed to have had much of a problem with disrobing for movies. Throw in a lot of violence particularly directed at women and mix in some nonsense about rival gangsters competing for the stripper business and you got one very sleazy piece of junk.
Fear City has nice photography particularly of NYC strip clubs and an interesting supporting cast with actors like Jan Murray, Rossano Brazzi and playwright and acting coach Michael V. Gazzo. The leads Tom Berenger and Melanie Griffith seem miscast, California actors pretending to be east coasters.
What finally kills this film is the ridiculous amount of cliches that Ferrara piles on to this film.
95 minutes.
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