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.
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.