Magic Mike is a 2012 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Joe Manganiello, and Matt Bomer in leading roles. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 29, 2012.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by
Reid Carolin
Gregory Jacobs
Channing Tatum
Nick Wechsler
Written by Reid Carolin
Starring
Channing Tatum
Alex Pettyfer
Cody Horn
Matt Bomer
Joe Manganiello
Matthew McConaughey
Cinematography Peter Andrews
Editing by Mary Ann Bernard
Studio Nick Wechsler Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s)
June 29, 2012
Running time 110 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $7 million[2]
Box office $39,155,000[3]
Plot
Adam (Alex Pettyfer) is a slacker who, after losing a football scholarship due to a fight with the coach, moves to Tampa, Florida to live with his sister, Brooke (Cody Horn). He gets a job at a local construction company and meets Mike Lane (Channing Tatum), who also works there as a roof tiler. However, Adam quits on his first day after being accused of stealing by the supervisor. As he's trying to leave his car will not start, so Mike gives him a ride home.
The following day, Adam spots Mike about to enter a popular nightclub. After some begging by Adam, Mike gets him into the club, and Adam soon learns that Mike is a stripper known as "Magic Mike", who works at a club called Xquisite, and that he is at the club to promote the strip show to women. Adam helps Mike in exchange for $100 and is taken backstage at Xquisite, where he meets the manager, Dallas (Matthew McConaughey) and the other dancers - Ken (Matt Bomer), Tarzan (Kevin Nash), Tito (Adam RodrÃguez) and Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello).
The club's DJ, drug dealer Tobias (Gabriel Iglesias), provides the dancers with samples of refined GHB to improve their stamina. However, Tarzan ingests too much of the drug, and is unable to perform. Mike convinces Adam to fill in for him, and Adam is a hit with the customers, earning a good amount of money. After a double date with Mike and two of the club's female clients, Adam is convinced to join the Xquisite and Mike nicknames him "The Kid".
Upon returning home, Adam is lectured by Brooke for staying out all night. He introduces her to Mike, and the two seem to be attracted to one another, although Brooke initially acts disinterested. Brooke later attends Adam's first official performance, but becomes embarrassed and leaves.
Mike and Brooke's attraction continues to grow in the following months, despite that Brooke is dating a man who lives in Orlando and Mike has an on-again off-again relationship with a woman named Joanna (Olivia Munn). Adam delves 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 wants to retire from the business in the near future and has been saving money and attempting to get a small business loan to pursue his dream of opening a custom furniture business. Mike later attends a hurricane party at Dallas' house, where the dancers celebrate the move to Miami. After Dallas tells Mike that he will only receive a 7 percent share in the business, instead of the 10 percent he originally promised, Mike becomes uncomfortable and leaves.
At the same hurricane party, Adam becomes part of scheme created by Tobias to sell drugs to Xquisite's clients, and is eventually given a package of ecstasy. 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. A girl that was given an ecstasy pill by Adam becomes ill, causing a brawl between Adam and the girl's boyfriend. Mike and Adam are forced to flee the scene, with Adam being unable to retrieve the package of pills. He tells Mike it's no big deal because the drugs were only worth $1,000. After cleaning up, the two go to Ybor City, where Mike sees Joanna in a restaurant having dinner with a man and, after confronting her, learns the man is her fiance. Later, at Xquisite, Dallas is infuriated to learn Mike didn't collect payment for the private show before the fight occurred. During the heated discussion, Mike confronts Dallas about the reduced profit sharing, which leads to a falling out between the two men. While they are arguing, Adam admits to Tobias he lost the drugs he was given.
After that night's show at the club is finished, Mike and Adam go to a club. Mike brings home a girl he meets there, and Adam meets up with a party girl named Nora (Riley Keough) whom he originally met at Dallas' party and brings her back to Mike's house, nearly overdosing on Nora's drugs before being found by a worried Brooke the next morning. Brooke angrily confronts Mike and accuses him of failing to protect her brother as he promised and ends her friendship with him. Later on, Tobias' suppliers break into Mike's house looking for Adam, who owes them money for the lost drugs. Realizing Adam lied to him about the drugs' worth, Mike gives them $10,000 - the majority of his savings - to pay Adam's debt. Later that day, Mike goes to Brooke's apartment looking for Adam. She tells him that Adam no longer lives there and she believes he has moved in with Nora. She reveals to him that she thinks it's a mistake for the two of them to go to Miami, with Mike telling her that being a stripper is not who he is, and the reason he is going to Miami is so that he will someday be able to leave that lifestyle entirely, asking Brooke to believe him. Brooke tells Mike that she wonders if he, himself, really believes it.
A short time later, during the dancers' final Tampa performance at Xquisite, Mike decides he's had enough. Pretending he needs to use the restroom, he instead leaves through the club's exit and drives away in his truck, effectively quitting. After deciding Mike isn't coming back, Dallas invites Adam to replace Mike as the frontman of the dancers. After leaving, Mike goes to Brooke's apartment. He tells her that he has quit and isn't going to Miami. He apologizes to her for not protecting Adam better. She 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. She also tells him she has broken up with her boyfriend in Orlando. They forgive each other, admit their mutual attraction, and decide to begin a relationship.
Development
In 2010, Tatum told an Australian newspaper that he would like to make a movie about his experiences as a stripper, saying, "I've already got the director picked out. I'd like Nicolas Refn, who did the movie Bronson, to do it because he's insane for it."[9]
Production
Magic Mike is directed by Steven Soderbergh based on a screenplay by Reid Carolin, who is also one of the film's producers. The film stars Channing Tatum, and the screenplay is in part based on Tatum's experiences as a stripper in Tampa, when he was 19 years old. The project was announced in April 2011,[10] and after Soderbergh cast Tatum and Pettyfer in the lead roles, Carolin spent time revising the screenplay.[5] The project was co-financed by Soderbergh and Tatum.[11] Filming began in Tampa in September 2011 and wrapped by late October.[11][12]
Warner Bros. Pictures acquired US distribution rights to the independently produced film on October 27, 2011, and scheduled it for a June 29, 2012, U.S. opening.[13]
Marketing
The first trailer for Magic Mike was released on April 18, 2012[14] and was met with mostly positive feedback. GeekScholars Movie News gave the preview an average score of "A-", on an A+ to F− scale, noting that the trailer showed Tatum's ability to deliver a fun performance while giving his character an ample amount of depth.[15]
Reception
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Magic Mike has received generally positive reviews. Based on 70 reviews counted on Rotten Tomatoes, Magic Mike has received a "Certified Fresh" rating of 81%, with 57 "fresh" reviews, and 13 "rotten". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the film has a 73 rating, indicating "generally positive reviews", based on 14 critic reviews.
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a beefcake bonanza with heart as well as muscle."
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