 Castle Rock Entertainment produced Striptease . The film is based on the novel Strip Tease by Floridian crime writer Carl Hiaasen . It was published in 1993 and was a bestseller . The screenplay itself was written by Andrew Bergman , who also directed . According to one critic , the novel 's plot is " quite faithfully followed " by the screenplay , but in bringing the complicated story to the screen , " Bergman forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin — smart , spunky and a former FBI employee — is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver . " 
