Coyote Ugly

Plot: Young songwriter Violet Sanford travels to New York seeking fame and fortune. Along the way she ends up working at Coyote Ugly, the most infamous bar in the city where the motto is "Don't get drunk, get ugly." The bar features a team of women bartenders who do outrageous things with patrons and the press.

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9 August, 2000

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4 August, 2000

iFilm ran an article about the movie recently where they compared it to Flashdance while discussing it's box office potential.

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17 July, 2000

By now you should know that the movie is based on a real bar in New York. The question is just how realistically? For the answer to that why not check out some people who should know. 'Kevin' over at the NYC Bartenders website sent us a note about their site which has a special section on the real Coyote Ugly. That photo to the left should give you a pretty good idea what the place is like.

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9 June, 2000

The official site for the movie has just opened. So far it only contains a poster, screensaver and the trailer but that's plenty for the moment. The trailer is shameless in that it fills the screen with beautiful women acting in a wild fashion. I loved it of course.

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9 March, 2000
Several of the women in the movie talked to In Line First about the picture. Piper Perabo describes the movie, "I play a songwriter who moves to New York to make it [in the music business] and ends up working at this crazy biker bar called Coyote Ugly." She visited the real bar and says it is "quite a scream."

Newcomer Bridget Moynahan describes her role, "I play a bartender that makes Violet's life miserable. Violet is played by Piper."

Similarly, newcomer Izabello Miko describes her role, "Cammie is a very flirtatious girl," Miko said. "She's just kind of like a tease and she's a very happy person. She makes friends with Violet, she's a bartender, she loves her job, she's very stylish and she falls in love all the time." Miko just moved to the U.S. a year and a half ago from Poland. This will be her first role. "I was able to develop a character and I love it," she said. "I dance a lot in the movie and I have a dance background so it was great."

1 February, 2000

To your left you can see the five bartenders who make up the staff of the bar Coyote Ugly in the movie Coyote Ugly.

20 January, 2000

If you have any questions as to why this movie is getting covered here, check out this picture. If that doesn't scream bad taste at you... you're our kind of person. In it you can see Piper Perabo dancing on the bar with Maria Bello to her right. Take note of the decorations hanging from the ceiling.

Bello plays Perabo's boss, who coaxes the shy young singer out of her shell and into behavior like this. There is a scene where the bartenders (Perabo, Bello, Tyra Banks, Izabella Miko and Bridget Moynahan) all get on the bar to dance seductively and finally pour pitchers of water on each other. Believe it or not the makers of this film claim that this is actually about empowering women instead of treating them as objects. Ummm... okay.

Director David McNally claims to subscribe to postfeminist feminism. He describes it as "women who use their sexual powers to be strong, misbehave, have fun, and succeed in business." Bello backs him up by sayint that "This movie is really about empowering girls," and the "decision of when to dance on the bar and when not to" displays that empowerment. Maybe there is something to that theory but there is little doubt the movie will be marketed heavily on its beautiful women and wild displays.

24 November, 1999
Ignore that last report. The U.S. rights for the name Coyote Ugly are owned by the bar the movie centers around. The movie may need to be renamed outside of the U.S. or at least in Japan. However here the name of the movie remains Coyote Ugly.

2 November, 1999
You would think a name like Coyote Ugly would be pretty unique. You would be wrong. It apparently has been used before for a Japanese cartoon. The name is trademarked and so this movie is getting a name change. It would appear that the new name of the movie is Bandito Smiles. Hmmm... Doesn't have quite the same ring to it. That is apparently the name of drink that combines tequila and Zima.

25 August, 1999
John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Melanie Lynskey (Detroit Rock City), and Izabella Miko have signed on to the movie. Lynskey plays the part of a wisecracking Jersey girl who is best friends with the lead (Piper Perabo). The movie will be directed by David McNally and already includes Perabo, Maria Bello (Payback) and Adam Garcia (Wilde) in the cast.

2 August, 1999
Piper Perabo has been cast in the movie's lead role. Coyote Ugly is about a songwriter who travels to New York to find her dreams but ends up working in the infamous bar Coyote Ugly.

28 July, 1999
This movie is about an infamous New York City bar by the same name. The two women bartenders will match everyone shot for shot, underwear graces the ceiling, those same bartenders stand on the bar to squirt tequila down a man's throat, and asking for water will get you blasted with the soda gun. The motto is "Don't Get Drunk, Get Ugly." Having now firmly established the bad taste, let's look at the movie details. Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Top Gun) will be the producer. The project caught his interest after reading about the bar in GQ. He was apparently considering casting Courtney Love as one of the bartenders, but decided she was too much trouble.