Coyote Ugly (Theatrical + Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray]

Moving to New York to pursue her dreams of becoming a famous songwriter, Violet Sanford (Perabo) finds herself desperate and broke. Get up on your feet, move to the beat and revel in the spectacularly enhanced sound quality. From hit-making producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) comes the unrated extended cut of Coyote Ugly. With an unbeatable cast of hot stars including Piper Perabo (The Prestige ) and Maria Bello (Payback), this sexy comedy is even more intoxicating on Blu-ray Disc®! The party never ends in Blu-rayTM High Definition! Ironically, the shy, innocent Violet lands a job as a barmaid at the hottest nightclub in town: Coyote Ugly. Drink in every frame of down-and-dirty fun as this wild adventure pours over you with sparkling visual clarity. Overflowing with attitude, the Coyotes spend more time on top of the bar than behind it, tantalizing the standing-room- only crowd with their outrageous antics!

This is a sweet and inoffensive film as long as you don't think too much about it. Is there anything sexier than that? In Coyote Ugly, the charming young waif Piper Perabo stars as Violet, a New Jersey waitress who moves to New York to make it big as a songwriter. In fact, the owner (Maria Bello) orders them to enact the first rule of strip clubs: "Appear available but never be available." Bruckheimer is smart enough to focus on the naive girl instead of the seamier side of the story, following her as she realizes her dream and picks up a disposable but nice man along the way. See? They're as smart as they are sexy! Then there's John Goodman, who turns in an absolutely charming performance as Violet's concerned father. --Andy Spletzer Really, they are strippers who don't have to take off their clothes. Further "empowering" the female figures in the film, Zoe (Tyra Banks), the bartender whom Violet is replacing, leaves in order to go to law school. She has absolutely no idea how the music business works, relying instead on her faith in her own abilities. The ones he makes that feature women, such as Flashdance and now Coyote Ugly, broaden their appeal with a fondness for "strong women." For Bruckheimer, that means self-determined, attractive women who don't need men to get what they want. As a producer, Jerry Bruckheimer makes movies for guys, mostly action films like Top Gun and Gone in 60 Seconds. In order to make ends meet, she gets a job in a bar called Coyote Ugly, where the bartenders are scantily clad women who dance on the bar and order around their mostly male clientele.