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Imagine a bar full of beautiful women who are not on a quest for Mr. Right but for Ms. Right, and you have Bar Girls. A contemporary look at the exhilarating highsand exasperating lowsof love, this breakthrough comedy follows the sexual escapades of a circle of friends who frequent the same watering hole and the same bedrooms! Featuring "sly, critically barbed humor and dead-on performances" (The New York Times), Bar Girls is "a riot" (LA Weekly)! Stood up yet again at LA's Girl Bar by her gorgeous but flaky girlfriend, TV cartoon writer Loretta fears she may never find her soulmate. But then in walks Rachael, an aspiring actress who more than catches Loretta's eye. The two fall head over heels in love until an attractive cop seduces one of them and then the other! Is this the end for Loretta and Rachael, or could it possibly be the beginning?
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| 13 of 15 people found the following review helpful  Kinda cheesy, but enjoyable nonetheless, By This review is from: Bar Girls (DVD) "Bar Girls" is an enjoyable little romantic comedy about an obsessive, incredibly funny cartoonist, Loretta, who is continually looking for that perfect significant other. When she actually finds her, she thinks it's too perfect and all her neurotic, but hilarious, self-sabotage tendencies kick in. Clever dialogue between Loretta and her best friend, tension-filled moments between Loretta and the film's stereotypical "bad girl", as well as tender moments of self-awareness make up for the film's obviously lacking depth. The intermittent scenes of Loretta's cartoon and the cartoon's heroine are hilarious! In all, "Bar Girls" is kinda cheesy, but an enjoyable 90-minutes nonetheless. 0 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful  A Grand Ole Film!, By thomas angelo zunich (long beach, ca USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Bar Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape) I am not a lesbien. I am not female. I am a male. There, now that I've released that into the universe I can get on with my review! 0 I rented this on a whim, curiousities sake granted. Expectations aside I felt "Sheesh, what are u getting yourself into this time Tom?" As I watched "Bar Girls" I began to get into the characters, feeling them, understanding them. I loved the relationship between the two main characters. It was fascinating to watch the trials and tribulations of their "dysfunctional love affair" so to speak. It was fun to see them get to know eachother and fumble around that thing called love. I think it's more fun to watch people in the horrendous dating scene than to be an active participant! One of my favourite lines in the movie is where some of the girls are again, at the bar "doin' hard time". One girl was finally so fed up with "the bar scene" she screams out "this place is so unhealthy!" I laughed so hard at that having had the same thoughts as her. The characters in "Bar Girls" are what made the movie for me. They are all so loveable and intriguing. And watch for Chastity Bono in a rare cameo appearance. Some of Bar Girls was also filmed in West Hollywood. It was neat to see "Freida's" and "Mickey's" and "Rage". I only wish I could get a better copy, mine is a dubbed copy! All and all a neato moovee! 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful Interesting, By This review is from: Bar Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape) Director Marita Giovanni's film is based on a play by Lauran Hoffman. Hoffman's material may get tied up in psychobabble but she has an ear for entertaining dialogue and mercilessly avoids the archness usually associated with lesbian drama. Set around an LA Girl bar it focuses on Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe), a beautiful red-haired cartoonist, and her romance with actress Rachel (Liza D'Agostino). Wolfe's performance is droll and moving, and she manages to throw off the bad ideas Giovanni and Hoffman aim at her. She also deliberately approximates the glamour of Rita Hayworth from Gilda. Her apartment features the famous poster of Hayworth smoking, as well as a huge closeup of Lotte Lenya's eyes. The character of Rachel is less interesting though D'Agostino holds her own with Wolfe in their fight scenes. I also like Loretta's ditzy friend Veronica (Justine Slater), a straight woman "enchanted" by the idea of a lesbian affair. Thos e wanting to see a graphic sex scene will not be disappointed but it felt to me Giovanni cut away at a "climactic" moment. The awful soundtrack suggests the film's low budget, as does the underpopulated bar, though this underpopulation serves Hoffman's incestuous roundelay theme. Note a cameo by Chastity Bono at Scorpio night. 0 |
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