Coyote Ugly
Tags: romantic, comedy, entertaining

Plot synopsis:
Violet Sanford leaves her hometown of South Amboy, New Jersey, her father Bill, and her best friend Gloria, in order to pursue her dreams of becoming a songwriter in nearby New York City. The pizza shop where she works has a wall covered with the autographs of employees that left, hoping to make it big, and Violet adds hers to the wall.
Violet tries unsuccessfully, a lot of times, to get her demo tape noticed by the recording studios. One night, she tries to get herself noticed by a music industry scout. The bartender jokingly points out Kevin O'Donnell, making her believe that he is the bar owner. When the joke is discovered, Violet feels that Kevin was making a fool out of her. With only a few dollars left in her pocket after her apartment is robbed, she goes to an all-night diner and notices three girls, Cammie, Rachel, and Zoe, flaunting the hundreds of dollars in tips they earned. After inquiring, she finds out that they work at a trendy bar named Coyote Ugly.
She finds her way to the bar and convinces the bar owner Lil to give her an audition. Violet's first audition does not go well; but after breaking up a fight between two customers, Lil agrees to give her a second audition. At her second audition, Violet douses the fire warden in water costing Lil $250. In order to keep her job, she has to make up $250 in one night. Kevin turns up at the bar, but ends up being auctioned off to one of the women in the bar. In order to pay off her debt to Kevin, Violet agrees to go on four dates with him. The two begin a relationship.
Kevin commits himself to helping Violet overcome her stage fright so that she can sell her music. Violet's stage fright was shown to be inherited from her mother who also came to New York to be a singer. Also shown is Violet's ability to sing to songs that she did not write. This fact is verified when she sings on the bar in the bar in order to save the necks of Cammie and Rachel, who were trying to break up a fight between the customers.
One night, a patron takes a picture of Violet in the middle of a raunchy move and with water pouring on her. When the picture appears in the paper, Bill happens to see it and gets angry at her. She continues to pursue her dream, though, despite being sidetracked with work at the bar. After getting fired when Kevin gets into a fight at the bar, Violet returns to New Jersey for Gloria's wedding and returns to New York when Bill was in a car accident.
Later, she performs at an open mic night at the Bowery Ballroom with the Coyotes from the Coyote Ugly saloon, Bill, Gloria, and Kevin all there for moral support. The performance goes over very well and she finally lands a deal with a record label. The film concludes back at Coyote Ugly with LeAnn Rimes, having recorded Violet's song, singing on the bar as Violet joins in.

Review: This was a simple story about a young shy girl with dreams trying to make it in show business; which is hard if you don't have the right connections.The dance numbers and bar scene were very realistic.
Based on the true story about the crazy female run bar in New York City, Coyote Ugly becomes surprisingly believable despite the usual Hollywood bits.
The story follows Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) as she moves from small town New Jersey to the city to become a songwriter.
Another feature to enjoy is the fabulous music with four songs performed by LeAnn Rimes with some smaller groups as well.Coyote Ugly crosses the unusual boundary of being both an exciting, fast-paced movie that gets the adrenaline flowing and a sensitive story with strong characters and brilliant acting to get the mind working.
In that regard, 'Coyote Ugly' fits right in.This film is energetic, entertaining, scintillating and fun to watch.
In that regard, 'Coyote Ugly' fits right in.This film is energetic, entertaining, scintillating and fun to watch.
John Goodman provides one of the film's best moments when he gets up on the bar and dances as Violet auctions him off to the screaming women in the crowd.The DVD is packed with interesting special features about the making of the film.
John Goodman provides one of the film's best moments when he gets up on the bar and dances as Violet auctions him off to the screaming women in the crowd.The DVD is packed with interesting special features about the making of the film.
I think Piper Perabo is excellent in her role as Violet, who actually sings some of the songs in the film.
While Violet's there she finds that nobody will accept her demos, so she goes looking for work and she finds a job in a local bar called, "Coyote Ugly".
In many ways, actually, 'Coyote Ugly' from personal opinion didn't even come close to good.Feel-good films when done right are very entertaining and heart-warming.
The film looks alright, especially in the colours, locations and the camera work, which show a lot of style, but cheapened by too much gloss and amateurish editing.Overall, there is a great soundtrack but 'Coyote Ugly' falls far short.
Violet Sanford(Piper Perabo)wants to avoid a dead end life and decides to leave New Jersey for the big city.
Piper Perabo was excellent as Violet and has a very promising film career, and Adam Garcia who play Kevin O'Donnel is my new fave actor.
The advertising leads you to belive there's no plot further than a bunch of scantily clad chicks shaking it on a bar, but the movie has heart and substance and is very positive in inspiring people to follow their dreams.
Down to her last few dollars, she tries out for a surprising job at a bar called Coyote Ugly.First, I don't know why she has to move to NYC to pursue her dreams as a songwriter.
Some shy small town girl moves to New York City and decides for some reason to join Coyote Ugly, a bar.
Nevertheless, it is still entertaining enough and has its fun, as well as its moments.The best things about this movie are the good pop soundtrack and the beautiful Piper Perabo as a very seductive girl.
Adam Garcia portrays Kevin O'Donnell, a likable, funny and cool dude.While not necessarily a great movie, "Coyote Ugly" is however underrated.
I believe that people expect too much out of simple films like this, I thought it was a great movie to see with my friends at home on a Sunday, I wasn't waiting for any special effects or anything like that, actually the story was good, it kept us entertained and I think that was its job.
Tyra Banks was great even though I was waiting to see her more on the picture, Maria Bello great performance, and Piper Perabo should be taking more into account in Hollywood because she showed she also is a great actress, and the music, well what can I say this was really the chick flick of 2000 so congratulations!!!!!
I laughed out loud, and wondered if that line was ad-libbed.If you want to know what this movie is like -- think of every movie cliche you've ever seen cramped into a plotline taken from that terrible J Love Hewitt TV show that failed last Fall.There was one other thing about the movie -- the music.
As is probably the case with nearly any young man who has seen this movie, I was roped into watching it by my female companion and only agreed to do so because of the promise of seeing several hot young actresses wet and dancing on a bar.
and not in a good wayTHIS MOVIE IS IN THE TOP 5 WORST OF ALL TIME CATEGORY!!!There is a scene of her on the rooftop playing the piano that is so bad, you actually will feel ashamed for watching it.You will groan.....
Yet another coming of age movie where the obstacle to be overcome is a performance.This one is differentiated only by having dancing girls along the way: pretty tame stuff pretending to be edgy.The thing we are supposed to focus on is the charm of the girl, who doesn't dazzle.
So Violet wants to move out of her small town to pursue her writing career in music (yawn, been there, done that) only to realize that when she gets in New York she's going to have to do more than try to hand over tapes at record companies (You think!) It actually comes up that she's going to have to pay rent (Gee, wonder why she never seemed to have thought about that before)After seeing three girls "winding down" after a night at their job, she gets a job there.
This movie is a bag of bad cliche with bad actors,a bad script and a bad director.Everything in Coyote Ugly is trash.I can't believe I spend money to see this.I thought that maybe it would some kind of a b-movies you like to hate, but no.I hate this movie, period.Pointless and boring.DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS ONE!.
Maria Bello (Lil.) makes a really cool boss and is obviously the one who hires Violet to work at Coyote Ugly and Izabella Miko, (Cammie.) Bridget Moynahan, (Rachel .) and Del Pentecost (Lou.) make really good co-workers to the bar.
With a small performance from Tyra Banks as Zoe. The music in the film is brilliant and it was really cool to see LeAnn Rimes in the film singing the theme tune to Coyote Ugly-'Can't fight the moonlight.' The soundtrack to movie is brilliant too and includes four LeAnn Rimes' songs.
COYOTE UGLY (2000) ** Piper Perabo, Maria Bello, Adam Garcia, Melanie Lynskey, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, John Goodman, Bud Cort.
'Cocktail' meets 'Flashdance' could have been the pitch for this dead in the water update of the old 'bright eyed girl with a dream moves to the big city' chestnut, this time around with energy to spare Perabo as a naïve New Jersey budding songwriter who embarks to The Big Apple wide eyed and bushy tailed and winds up as a bartender at the infamous eponymous establishment where she gets some life lessons, a well-meaning boyfriend and a chance to prove herself.
Released in 2000, "Coyote Ugly" is a drama starring Piper Perabo as a singer/composer who leaves her home in nearby New Jersey with her dad (John Goodman) to try her hand at the music business in the big city.
Maria Bello plays the owner of the bar while Adam Garcia plays the girl's potential beau.Perabo plays a thoroughly winsome heroine and the movie's fun with a kinetic soundtrack (with, for example, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" playing twice).
That's how forgettable the film is.A couple of years after the flick was released my wife asked a 9 year-old girl what her favorite movie was and she enthusiastically said "Coyote Ugly!" That tells you something about the film's depth.The picture runs 100 minutes and was shot in South Amboy, New Jersey; Atlantic Beach, Long Island; New York City; and Tower Theatre & Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
In that film Christina Aguilera also plays a rather naive young girl who leaves her small-town home to settle in the big city and who ends up working in a rather risqué establishment.
One of the worst movies of the year.Plot Details: This opinion reveals major details about the movie's plot.Not impressed with this one by producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Gone in 60 Seconds," "Armageddon," "Con Air," etc)Piper Perabo ("The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle") -- a wide-eyed beauty from central casting -- is the movie's generic ingenue, a girl named Violet from small town New Jersey who moves to New York to pursue her dreams of being a songwriter.
Of course, even though she grew up just down the turnpike from Manhattan, she's as naive as a farmer's daughter and learns the hard way that peddling your demo tape to snide receptionists at record label offices isn't going to get you anywhere in the Big City.So instead of becoming an instant music biz success, Violet finds herself working at the meat packing district's wildest road house, Coyote Ugly.Staffed by 102-lb.
sexpots who habitually shake their stuff atop the bar in size two leather pants and tank tops, the joint is packed wall-to-wall every night with hooting, drooling patrons that the girls tease like pole-dancers to coax drinks into them and money out of them.Written in Screenwriting 101 style, packed with every New York City cliché in the book (her dank, dingy flat is broken into her first week in town), and overflowing with young girls in wonderbras while dancing, the first half of "Coyote Ugly" plays like it was penned by a 13-year-old boy who just discovered masturbation.
For the second half, the script must have been handed off to a 13-year-old girl who thinks Britney Spears is the greatest musical talent the world has ever known, because the rest of the movie is launched by a "Face it dad, I'm not your little girl anymore" speech and built around Violet overcoming stage fright and chasing her dream of selling bubble-gum pop songs - aided, of course, by the charming encouragement of a handsome boy (Australian actor Adam Garcia) who just knows she can do it!And yes, Violet sings.
But when belting out one of the acoustic Lilith Faire-lite ditties she hopes to sell some day, suddenly she's a honey-voiced songbird, courtesy of audio looping by jailbait country music star LeAnn Rimes (who has a cameo in the finale).Another hearty laugh stems from the fact that "Coyote Ugly" takes place in a picturesquely gritty, fantasy version of NYC in which a 21-year-old cutie pie bartender can walk down an alley at 4 a.m. in a 15-inch skirt and knee-highs, counting her tips without a care in the world.On the respectability front, the picture's one saving grace is John Goodman, who is blue collar perfection as Violet's modest, toll-collector pop.But even though "Coyote Ugly" is tedious, obvious and badly staged, it does have an infectious spirit.
It´ll definitely distract you from all your everyday problems by taking you to a New York City that is even worse than its reputation.Anyway, I´ve never seen anything quite like this movie from Jerry Bruckheimer´s production company.
It´s more like a bad feeling that accompanies the watching of it.It´s like: "why am I wasting my time with this?"Anyway, he/she who likes absolutely carefree entertainment, will probably find "Coyote Ugly" appealing...
So I take it all the snazzy rock video-like trailers with women dancing on top of a bar was a way to get straight males thinking they'd go to this movie and see lots of boobs and maybe even a little female on female lovin' (their lamest media forced fantasy), BUT....
It comes off in total more like a female version of the male bar movie Cocktail.
It could have been closer to televisions CHEERS where ultimately, the bar always was the focus.The things to watch for are the women who are good looking, and a solid workman like performance from John Goodman.
When she overhears three girls talking about how much money they made in one night, she learns of the bar Coyote Ugly, where the barmaids are so lively and fun that they draw the crowds.
She gets a job there  but will it hinder her chances of getting her big break?I, like almost all men, enjoy the odd music video here and there  it's not hard to watch MTV for longer than 20 minutes and realise that all the videos know that sexy girls shaking their asses will get the viewers watching their songs.
This leaves plenty of scenes of girls in tight/skimpy clothes dancing on a bar, covering themselves with water etc which is all well and good if that's all you want.
Goodman doesn't manage to come out with any dignity either and I'm sure the only thing he'll remember about his part in this film will be how much he got paid.Overall  wanna see girls dance and be sexy?
Coyote Ugly is the worst film I've seen in some time.
You need to be in the right mood to enjoy this film.In a plot along the lines of "The thing called love", Violet (Piper Perabo) arrives in New York City with aspiriations of becoming a song writer.
Violet leaves home and goes to New York to try her look, but realizing she needs to make end's meet, she goes to work at a bar called "Coyote Ugly" where she will entertain customers by seductively dancing on the bar countertop while pouring drinks and showering her and her fellow employees with water.
Nor anyone else in this film.Starring: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, and John Goodman.
I watched this movie mainly in expectation of some good music video style dancing scenes and pretty girls.
When Jerry Bruckheimer committed to produce "Coyote Ugly," I don't think he was intending to remake "The Wizard of Oz" or "Gone With the Wind," widely regarded at two of the greatest movies of all time.
And while I don't think "Coyote Ugly" is one of even the fifty greatest movies of all time, I did like it for what it was; a cute little movie that can lift your spirits when you're down.Violet Sanford, played by the heartbreakingly sexy Piper Perabo, decides to pick up and leave her smalltown New Jersey existence - much to the chagrin of her toll-booth operator father, played by John Goodman in a show-stealing performance - for the Big Apple for a shot at success in the music business.
"No," says the dive owner as he hands her a matchbox with the name of a bar, the infamous "Coyote Ugly;" "They're coyotes!" She then decides to "audition" for the empty slot.Somehow, over time, she impresses the hard-as-nails owner Lil, played with /chutzpah/ by Maria Bello, formerly of "ER," with her way with rowdy New Yorkers ready to get into a fight over a girl, her ability to raise $250 in two minutes by auctioning off an intimate night with Kevin as a means of payback and saving her fellow waitresses from impending trouble by singing along to "One Way or Another" by Blondie on the jukebox.
Piper Perabo plays Violet, a small town girl who moves to New York to become a song writer but ends up working in a bar.
With Coyote Ugly, we have the story of a young New Jersey girl moving from NJ to the big bad city of Manhattan.
Girl (Piper Perabo) leaves small town and bitter single parent (John Goodman) to make it big in the city.
He adds in gorgeous women (Maria Bello,Izabella Miko,Melanie Lynskey,Bridget Moynahan,Tyra Banks)for some seriously good eye candy, loud thunderous music, Bruckheimer colors, camera shots and flair and a wild bar named Coyote Ugly.
For a high energy, full of eye candy, fun loving Bruckheimer film without explosions, Coyote Ugly is a not that bad of a choice..
But it's also a different kind of love story than you would usually see in a movie with a twist of tragedy (but I'm definitely not saying that it's a tear jerker.)Violet leaves New Jersey in hope for a new life, and a career as a song writer.
As they say, `You've got to start from the bottom and work your way up (or to the top.)She gets an audition at the Coyote Ugly bar by hearing the Coyotes talking about how much they will miss Zoe [played by Tyra Banks] when she leaves.
Girls want to see Adam Garcia, boys want to see the girls dancing on the bar, children will enjoy all the bright lights and Lee Ann Rhymes, parents enjoy John Goodman's character and can relate to him (a new role for john and a job well done), and movie buffs can critique the very interesting storyline and love story that develops.
However, I must say that Coyote Ugly was the most fun movie I had seen in a long time!
It's no accident that the trailer hid what I'm about to tell you:  Coyote Ugly is a chick flick, a classic boy-meets-girl.Small town girl Violet Sanford leaves home for the Big apple with the dream of becoming a professional song writer.
In the year of our Lord 2000, the god of adolescent boys gave unto us the film "Coyote Ugly".This movie, I think, it the cherry on top of our Y2K formulaic summer cinema sundae.
The problem with the Coyote Ugly is that the plot is so horribly bad that it made watching this movie extremely painful.The acting is average at best.
I have seen Coyote Ugly, and enjoyed every minute of the film.
There's no great acting either: Perabo is OK playing the small town girl having a hard time trying life in New York City, and Garcia's Aussie accent is funny (if not very convincing).