Based on Carl Hiaasen 's best-selling novel of the same name , the film centers on an FBI secretary-turned- stripper who becomes involved in both a child-custody dispute and corrupt politics.
However, it was panned by critics, won six Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture , and has come to be evaluated as one of the worst movies ever made.
Former FBI secretary Erin Grant loses custody of her seven-year-old daughter Angela to her ex-husband Darrell, having recently lost her job because of his arrest record, as he was a drug addict who dealt in illegal drugs.
She attempts to probe his whereabouts from his older sister Rita, as he often relocates without informing Erin and uses Angela to steal wheelchairs from hospitals before selling them on the black market. Congressman David Lane Dilbeck, representing Florida's 5th congressional district , visits the club and becomes infatuated with Erin. Aware of his embarrassing indulgences, patron Jerry Killian approaches Erin with a plan to manipulate Dilbeck and settle the custody dispute in her favor.
However, as he is the chairman of the subcommittee on sugar, Dilbeck has powerful business connections, including lobbyist Malcolm J. Moldowsky, his right-hand man, and father-and-son sugar barons Willie and Chris Rojo, whose price supports are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Consequently, those who could potentially humiliate him in an election are murdered.
