f i l m Coyote Ugly
Director : David McNally
Cast : Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan, John Goodman
(Touchstone, 2000) Rated: PG-13 by Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters Film and TV Editor
e-mail this article Full of Sand Y ou've seen the trailer for Coyote Ugly Stuff magazine and The Man Show If all this sounds familiar, that's because it's the plot of countless movies about girls growing up into stars of some kind, from Ruby Keeler in Footlight Parade and Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door , to any of the Star Is Born s, to Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance . This last is an especially resonant precursor, being the film that put producer Jerry Bruckheimer on the blockbuster map, way back in 1983. Since then, of course, Bruckheimer's action flicks ( Top Gun Beverly Hills Cop Bad Boys Con Air , etc., many made with his late partner Don Simpson) have reigned supreme at the box office. And because his biggest successes are aggressively guy-focused, the return here to a girl's story almost seems nostalgic. What's more surprising, frankly, is that for the first forty minutes or so, the girls and women in Coyote Ugly Hollow Man , opening down the way from this film at your multiplex.) | |
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