In addition to lesser-known videos such as "A Night at the Revuebar" (1983), the 1980s also featured mainstream films involving strippers and their work as part of the central narrative. These included "Flashdance" (1983), which told the story of blue-collar worker Alexandra (Alex) Owens (Jennifer Beals), who works as an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bar at night and at a steel mill as a welder during the day. "Blaze" (1989) features Lolita Davidovitch as notorious stripper Blaze Starr. Starr herself appears in the film in a cameo role. "Exotica" (1994), directed by Atom Egoyan, is set in a Canadian lap-dance club, and portrays a man's (Bruce Greenwood) obsession with a schoolgirl stripper named Christina (Mia Kirshner). "Showgirls" (1995) was directed by Paul Verhoeven and starred Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon. "Striptease" (1996), was an adaptation of the novel starring Demi Moore. "The Players Club" (1998) starred LisaRaye as a girl who becomes a stripper to earn enough money to enter college and study journalism.