Joe Eszterhas’s tenure as the hottest screenwriter in town ended with two notorious 1995 flops: the NC-17 rated Showgirls (directed, like Basic Instinct, by Paul Verhoeven) and Jade (produced, like Sliver, by Robert Evans), We’ll analyze why these films failed to connect with audiences in 1995, and, more importantly, why the media at the time seized on them as major embarrassments for the industry.
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- Show
- FrequencySeries
- PublishedJune 27, 2023 at 4:00 AM UTC
- Length1h 37m
- Season19
- Episode213
- RatingExplicit