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Live Nude Girls Unite!
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8.5

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This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. (First Run Features)

GENRE(S):	Documentary
WRITTEN BY:	Julia Query Vicky Funari
DIRECTED BY:	Julia Query Vicky Funari
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 21, 2001 Video: August 21, 2001 Theatrical: October 6, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	75 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Village Voice Amy Taubin

Wickedly funny.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

Addresses the plight of the women in the sex industry with a blend of humor and serious irony that's illuminating.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Instructive documentary. Eventually, we get to see the awkward confession and the tender, fumbling reconciliation, in which mom is proud to have a lesbian labor hero daughter but can't yield her distaste on the stripping issue.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The ambience is often squalid, but the movie has much to reveal about the exploitation of women in this sleazy corner of the show-business world.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It's not slick, it has some lapses, it sometimes looks like a home movie, but it's never boring.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

Advocacy journalism and makes no bones about it, which in this particular case is a plus.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

A movie that would make any mother proud.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A warm group portrait of the hearty, scrappy women of the Lusty Ladies and a mother-daughter sketch of Joyce and Julia that is honest and touching.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

It's a funny, fascinating and at times really quite moving story.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The most effective shots in the movie are from inside the "fishtank" where the dancers spend their workday gyrating naked in utter boredom.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Story makes for surprisingly exciting viewing, particularly when it comes time for Query to tell her mother, a respected doctor.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

A muddle of good intentions and bad filmmaking that sneaks into your affections despite its artlessness and, more deleterious still, the narcissism of its co-director Julia Query.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

You'd do best to approach this doc with the strippers' credo in mind: Look but don't touch. Scrutinize this one too closely and you'll find a sagging, pockmarked mess.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Perhaps this "movie," custom-made for dykes, strippers, and their loved ones, will jump-start Query's real career.

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