What happens if you stay in Vegas? That’s the question at the center of Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” which debuted its first trailer from Roadside Attractions. Set against the backdrop of Sin City, the film sees Pamela Anderson playing Shelley, a seasoned showgirl who finds herself at a crossroads with her stage production running out of steam.

Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. Curtis plays a waitress and confidante of Anderson’s character, delivering a performance that Peter Debruge, Variety chief film critic, describe as a “force of nature”. Bautista plays Shelley’s manager and ex-lover, who announces the end of her career. Shipka and Song play two fellow showgirls who move on to greener pastures. Lourd plays Anderson’s daughter, Hannah.

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“The Last Showgirl” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, where it received positive reviews and launched Anderson as a potential contender in the race for this year’s best actress Oscar. Roadside is giving the film a limited release in Los Angeles on December 13 as an awards qualifier. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on January 10.

The film marks Anderson’s first return to the big screen since she briefly reprized her role as CJ Parker for the “Baywatch” movie reboot in 2017. At a TIFF press conference in September, Anderson said: “A lot of my career has been focused on the physical and it’s been a journey, but it’s also part of the reason why I’ve kind of done this experiment with myself, you know, peeling it all away, remembering who I am defined not by what people do to me, but by what I do.

Watch the trailer for “The Last Showgirl” below.

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