He pressed charges, I gave her a raise,” the owner offhandedly tells Violet of her fellow bartender.) Much like in 2019’s Hustlers, the men who frequent the bar are portrayed as drunken idiots, whose money the women of the Coyote Ugly will gladly take but they’ll never respect. (“She pummeled a customer for grabbing her ass. They dance on tables one second and brutalize the male bar patrons who dare to disrespect them the next. Violet’s coworkers at the bar (played by Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan, and Izabella Miko, respectively) are supremely confident, with an innate ability to wield their sexuality. But everything changes when she scores a job at the Coyote Ugly. Despite her passion for music, she has crippling stage fright, and doesn’t have the nerve to sing her own songs. Because when we first meet Violet, she’s a naive New Jersey transplant who’s just moved to the big city after years of taking care of her father. But it’s not Kevin’s dickishness that’s kept this Coyote Ugly scene in my subconscious for 20 years now - it’s that while he’s insulting Violet’s revealing clothing and line of work, she never once apologizes for who she is.Īfter losing her boyfriend, her job, and her newfound friend group of coworkers, Violet still doesn’t have any regrets about her time working at the bar. And when Violet can’t get out of work in time to make it to the gig, Kevin storms into the bar, punches a regular, and subsequently gets Violet fired. He’s just traded his beloved Spider-Man comic book (wish I was kidding) to get Violet, a bartender with dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter, a spot at a prominent open mic night. “They don’t come to watch you sing, they come to watch girls shaking it on a bar,” Violet’s (Piper Perabo) boyfriend Kevin (Adam Garcia) screams at her in the Manhattan alley of the Coyote Ugly Saloon. Sometimes, late at night, I think of a line from Coyote Ugly.
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