Malaysia bans Jennifer Lopez stripper film Hustlers for nudity

The country’s censors said it would have to make so many cuts to racy scenes there would be barely anything left to screen

The film is about how New York strippers turned the tables on wealthy businessmen during the financial crisis

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A still from the film Hustlers. Photo: STXfilms/AP

Published: 8:04pm, 20 Sep 2019Updated: 3:55pm, 22 Sep 2019

Malaysia has banned the hit Jennifer Lopez film Hustlers, authorities said on Friday, criticising the film about strippers as packed with “obscene content” not suitable for cinema-goers in the conservative country.

The star-studded film – billed as a female Wolf of Wall Street – is about how New York strippers turned the tables on wealthy businessmen during the financial crisis.

The real-life tale depicts how a group of women resorted to increasingly criminal tactics, such as spiking men’s drinks before emptying their bank accounts, as the stock market crash hit strip club receipts.

But Malaysia’s Film Censorship Board banned the film from cinemas, saying it would have to make so many cuts to racy scenes there would be barely anything left to screen.

“This film contains too many scenes with too much excessive obscene content, and is not suitable for public screening,” the board’s chairman Mohamad Zamberi Abdul Aziz said.