Coyote Ugly

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As a producer, Jerry Bruckheimer makes movies for guys, mostly action films like Top Gun and Gone in 60 Seconds. The ones he makes that feature women, such as Flashdance and now Coyote Ugly, broaden their appeal with a fondness for "strong women." For Bruckheimer, that means self-determined, attractive women who don't need men to get what they want. Is there anything sexier than that? In Coyote Ugly, the charming young waif Piper Perabo stars as Violet, a New Jersey waitress who moves to New York to make it big as a songwriter. She has absolutely no idea how the music business works, relying instead on her faith in her own abilities. In order to make ends meet, she gets a job in a bar called Coyote Ugly, where the bartenders are scantily clad women who dance on the bar and order around their mostly male clientele. Really, they are strippers who don't have to take off their clothes. In fact, the owner (Maria Bello) orders them to enact the first rule of strip clubs: "Appear available but never be available." Bruckheimer is smart enough to focus on the naive girl instead of the seamier side of the story, following her as she realizes her dream and picks up a disposable but nice man along the way. Further "empowering" the female figures in the film, Zoe (Tyra Banks), the bartender whom Violet is replacing, leaves in order to go to law school. See? They're as smart as they are sexy! Then there's John Goodman, who turns in an absolutely charming performance as Violet's concerned father. This is a sweet and inoffensive film as long as you don't think too much about it. --Andy Spletzer


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I recently watched this. This was totally not what I was expecting. I didn't even notice it was pg-13.

I did however get a kick out of the "spitting the shot out into a beer bottle trick". I've been using that one for years.

This was listed under IMDB's trivia:
Jessica Simpson went through many auditions for the lead character, but dropped out when filmmakers refused to take out the sex scene. Most of the sex scene was cut from the finished film anyway.
 

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Not great cinema by any means but entertaining.
 

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Not great cinema by any means but entertaining.

:yeahthat:

Forgot that Tyra was in that.

What happened to Piper Picaboo or whatever her name was? She was supposed to be the next hot thing.

Maria Bello has a hot voice.
 

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John Goodman makes this movie worth watching.

And Piper is all right but there is something about her face that just seems odd .... I don't know ...
 
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John Goodman makes this movie worth watching.

Many people agreed with you:
IMDB said:
After test screening, the filmmakers discovered from the audience that they wanted to see more of John Goodman. New scenes with him were filmed and added in to the final cut.

And Piper is all right but there is something about her face that just seems odd .... I don't know ...

I know what you mean. Sometimes she looks hot, and other times she looks really goofy.
 
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