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Coyote Ugly

2000

David McNally

Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, John Goodman, Maria Bello ...

4.9

33,131

Romance. Drama Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), a girl in her early 20s, goes to the Big Apple to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. While waiting for her dream to come true, she lands a day job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly, the city's newest hot spot. Here, the all-female employees cater to the largely male clientele by treating them with a good deal of sass. As Violet starts work, her aspirations are at least temporarily ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Colin Kennedy Empire	"There is nothing here to distract anyone save the most undemanding (or most horny) of 14 year-olds (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There is a reason to see the movie, and that reason is Piper Perabo. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Superficial (...) It looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial. (After extolling the fun of alcohol, the movie is lacking only the somber tagline "Drink Responsibly," which actually makes the Miller television spots morally superior.)."
		Robert Koehler Variety	"Set pieces in Coyote Ugly are staged with a loose energy that captures the boozy, sexy heat of the place (...) Tech credits are thoroughly pro"
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"I liked 'Coyote Ugly' better when it was called 'Flashdance,' although I didn't like it very much then. (...) The music is explosively banal."
		Nathan Rabin AV Club	"A drama that doesn't so much exploit hoary conventions and unconvincing parental conflicts as treat them like manna from heaven"

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