Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)

3 Stars (out of 4)

'Nude' Feud

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

The makers of the award winning Paulina (1998), Julia Query and Vicky Funari, follow up with this slight (75 minute) but very revealing (pardon) look at a group of San Francisco strippers who form a labor union -- the first of its kind. It's shot on video and looks pretty low-rent, but the subject matter is just lurid enough (there's plenty of nudity) and fascinating enough to keep us watching. Ms. Query is the narrator and main focus of the movie, and she gets trapped into finally telling her social worker mother that she's both a lesbian and a stripper. As the documentary ends, Query and her comrades are busily working to unionize other strip clubs around the nation. Who says sex and politics don't mix?