Product: Coyote Ugly [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
An Entertaining Film
Jerry Bruckheimer is a wonderful director. He continues to display his talents in this entertaining film with a good cast.The plot is fairly simple, but it works for this movie. A young songwriter from New Jersey, who has a severe case of stagefright, moves to New York to hopefully "make it." Stuggling financially, she takes a job as a bartender/waitress at a wild bar named "Coyote Ugly." Here, the "eye-candy" female bartenders partake in wild stage acts to enhance the bar's nightlife image. While working at this bar ann befriending several other workers, the young songwriter, Violet, hopes to break into the entertainment industry.Rising star, Piper Perabo, plays the perfect Violet, and John Goodman is an excellent compliment to her as her father. Besides, Goodman practically steals the whole movie in the very last scene, but you'll have to buy the film to see what I mean. Maria Bello, who plays the owner of the bar, also adds in a steller performance, not to forget, Adam Garcia, who plays Violet's love interest quite nicely, although his character develops late in the film. Add in supermodel, Tyra Banks, in a cameo role, and the movie just grows on you.On the whole, this was a pretty good movie. It was fairly fast-paced, and the storyline, although simplistic, was well-defined. The actresses were very pleasing to the eye, and they all acted well together, providing an overall nice cohesive film. It is a good, solid effort.