Coyote Ugly





Director : David McNally

Starring: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, Melanie Lynskey, Izabella Miko, John Goodman and Bridget Moynahan.

Length : aprox. 100 min

USA, 2000

This is the story about a girl named Violet. She's 21, dead serious about becoming a successful song-writer, but afraid of performing on stage (she thinks it runs in the family because her late mother had the same fear). So she leaves her tiny little New Jersey town to go the Big Apple next door. She says goodbye to her chubby father (John Goodman) and moves to this tiny disgusting apartment in New York. Her best friend Gloria (Melanie Lynskey)who thought Violet would never actually go to New York, wishes her good luck and will appear a few times during the course of the film, so that the audience has a good laugh once in a while. But little Violet Sanford seeks desperately for someone to sing her songs (Mariah, Witney, anybody ! She's desperate !!!).In the mean time, she's got to get a job, so she goes to see the owner of Coyote Ugly, the hottest bar in town, and before she knows what's what, she's Jersey, the new Coyote [Coyote = a slim, sexy, 20-something bartender of Coyote Ugly]. Along the way, she meets Kevin O'Donnell (Adam Garcia), her brand new, home-made Australian boyfriend and #1 fan, who believes she could sing her own songs on stage, but she's having such a blast as a successful Coyote...

A feel good movie with feel good songs and feel good characters, for a feel good audience, basically. Fun, fun, fun ! Sometimes it gets a little bitter (death, fear, desperation), but a couple of catchy songs, sexy dancing girls and Melanie Lynskey put the fun back in the movie.

COYOTE ??? Cool Out Your Oold Tired Ethics !

The idea for this Coyote Ugly movie came from and article published in 1997 in GQ. It was about this popular bar in New York. Ring a bell ?



clockwise from top left : WHO ARE THE COYOTES ? The five Coyotes : Tyra Banks (the one Violet's replacing), Maria Bello (the boss), Bridget Moynahan (the one you quiclky forget about - the kinda mean one), Izabella Miko (the Russian one) and Piper Perabo (Violet). And no, Melanie Lynskey is not a "Coyote" !