Magic Mike (2012)

Magic Mike is a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello and Matthew McConaughey. The plot revolves around Adam, a nineteen-year-old who enters the world of male stripping, guided by Mike Lane, who has been in the business for six years.

The film is loosely based on the experiences of Tatum, who was a nineteen-year-old stripper in Tampa, Florida. Magic Mike was primarily filmed in Los Angeles and in Tampa. It premiered as the closing film for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24, 2012 and was widely released by Warner Bros. on June 29, 2012. The film received positive reviews upon its release and was a box-office success.

Plot

Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) has big dreams but pays his bills through a series of odd jobs, most notably performing as the star stripper at Xquisite Strip Club. The club is owned by Dallas, (Matthew McConaughey) who has dreams of creating an "empire" of strip clubs.

Mike soon meets nineteen-year-old Adam (Alex Pettyfer) who has recently been fired from his construction job. Mike takes Adam under his wing and encourages him to begin stripping at Xquisite. Mike is introduced to Adam's sister Brooke (Cody Horn). Despite his on again off again relationship with a woman named Joanna (Olivia Munn), Mike finds himself attracted to Brooke and promises to look after Adam.

Adam falls further into the excessive lifestyle of the Xquisite dancers, using drugs and having sexual encounters with many clients. When Dallas announces he has a plan to move their act to Miami, Mike confides in Brooke that he is tiring of the lifestyle and wants to get a small business loan to pursue his dream of opening a custom furniture business. The bank declines his loan application and Mike realizes that he has to stay in the business to continue to pay his bills. Mike later attends a hurricane party at Dallas' house, where Adam becomes part of a scheme created by Tobias (Gabriel Iglesias), Xquisite's DJ, to sell drugs to Xquisite's clients, and is eventually given a package of ecstasy. Adam begins using drugs regularly, and Mike notices more of Adam's reckless behavior, to the chagrin of Brooke who is relying on Mike to protect him.

A few days later, Mike and Adam perform for a private party at a sorority house, and Adam brings the package of drugs with him. At the party a girl was given an ecstasy pill by Adam, causing a brawl between Adam and the girl's boyfriend. Mike and Adam are forced to flee the scene. Later, at Xquisite, Dallas is infuriated to learn Mike didn't collect payment for the private show before the fight occurred. Also, Tobias becomes dismayed when he discovers that Adam had left the package of drugs, worth $1,000 in all, at the sorority.

After that night's show at the club is finished, Mike and Adam take drugs and go to a club. Adam winds up vomiting and passing out, with Brooke finding him on the floor the next morning. Brooke angrily confronts Mike and accuses him of failing to protect her brother (as he had promised) and ends her friendship with him. Later on, Tobias' suppliers break into Mike's house looking for Adam. Realizing Adam lied to him about the drugs' worth, Mike gives them $10,000 (most of his life savings) to pay Adam's debt, unbeknownst to Brooke. Later, during the dancers' final performance at Xquisite, Mike decides he's had enough, knowing that Dallas has no loyalty to any of them and is driven by greed. Pretending he needs to use the restroom, he leaves through the club's exit and drives away to end up at Brooke's apartment, where he tells her he is through with stripping.

After realizing Magic Mike isn't coming back, Dallas invites Adam to replace Mike as the frontman of the dancers. Brooke then tells Mike that after he left her apartment earlier, Adam called her to tell her that Mike had paid off the drug dealers for him. They forgive each other, admit their mutual attraction, and decide to begin their relationship anew.

Cast

Channing Tatum as Michael "Magic Mike" Lane,a male stripper who performs at Xquisite.

Alex Pettyfer as Adam (The Kid),Mike's protege who befriends him

Matthew McConaughey as Dallas,a former stripper who owns Xquisite and Mike's boss.

Cody Horn as Brooke,Adam's sister and Mike's love interest

Joe Manganiello as Big Dick Richie

Matt Bomer as Ken

Adam Rodríguez as Tito

Kevin Nash as Tarzan

Olivia Munn as Joanna, Mike's on-again, off-again lover

Gabriel Iglesias as Tobias

Mircea Monroe as Ken's Wife

Riley Keough as Nora

Wendi McLendon-Covey as Tara

Betsy Brandt as Banker

Directed by

Steven Soderbergh

Produced by

Nick Wechsler

Gregory Jacobs

Channing Tatum

Reid Carolin

Written by

Reid Carolin

Starring

Channing Tatum

Alex Pettyfer

Cody Horn

Matt Bomer

Olivia Munn

Joe Manganiello

Matthew McConaughey

Cinematography

Peter Andrews

Editing by

Mary Ann Bernard

Studio Nick Wechsler Productions

Iron Horse Entertainment

Extension 765

Distributed by

Warner Bros. Pictures (USA)

FilmNation Entertainment (International)

Release date(s)

June 29, 2012

Running time

110 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Het verhaal

Mike Lane is een 30-jarige stripper, wiens droom het is zelf meubels te maken. Daarvoor ontbreekt hem evenwel het kapitaal. Om dit kapitaal bij elkaar te krijgen doet hij verschillende klusjes in de bouw, onder meer dakbedekking, en herstelt hij auto’s. Ook werkt Mike als danser in een stripclub voor vrouwen. De club waar hij danst, de Xquisite Strip Club, wordt uitgebaat door Dallas. In deze club is Mike op zes jaar tijd één van de grootste sterren geworden en de vrouwen aanbidden hem.

Op zijn werk in de bouw ontmoet hij de 19-jarige Adam, die ontslagen werd na betrokken te zijn bij een diefstal. Mike geeft hem een lift naar huis omdat Adam's auto niet start. De avond nadien komen ze elkaar weer tegen en neemt Mike hem mee naar de club. In de club heeft een andere danser teveel drugs genomen waardoor hij niet kan optreden. Daarom stelt Mike aan Dallas voor om Adam te laten dansen. Adam oogst met zijn eerste act toch succes omdat de toeschouwsters vallen op Adam's onschuldig gezicht. Na deze avond mag hij zich officieel aansluiten bij het Xquisite-team.

Mike ontmoet Brooke, Adam's zus, en er is onmiddellijk chemie tussen deze twee ondanks dat Mike een seksuele relatie heeft met een andere vrouw en ook Brooke een relatie heeft met een man uit Orlando. Adam vervalt al gauw in de slechte levensstijl van de dansers, hij heeft veel seksuele contacten met klanten en gebruikt drugs. Later gaat hij ook dealen en verliest hij zijn drugs waarna Mike's huis vernield wordt door de schuldeisers. Mike geeft een deel van zijn spaargeld voor zijn meubelzaak af om Adam's leven te redden.