Bad Girls (1994)

• Year: 1994
• Released: 22 Apr 1994
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109198/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_girls
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
• Runtime: 99 min
• Writer: Albert S. Ruddy, Charles Finch, Gray Frederickson
• Director: Jonathan Kaplan
• Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell
• Keywords: revenge, blonde, wild west, pistol duel, small western town,

5.2/10

Bad Girls Storyline

When saloon prostitute Cody Zamora rescues her friend Anita from an abusive customer by killing him, she is sentenced to hang. However, Anita and their two friends Eileen and Lilly rescue Cody and the four make a run for Texas, pursued by Graves and O’Brady, two Pinkerton detectives hired to track them. When Cody withdraws her savings from a Texas bank, the women believe they can now start a new life in Oregon. But Cody’s old partner Kid Jarrett takes Cody’s money when his gang robs the bank, and so the four so-called “Honky- Tonk Harlots” set out to recover the money, with the Pinkertons hot on their trail.

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Not so much Wild West as rather genteel

This is actually a fairly handsomely mounted and rather traditional western, if it wasn’t for the unrelenting glamorousness of the protagonists. Even when they are dirty, you get the impression that it’s designer dirt.

But that’s OK, because the glam factor is one of the things which sells this western.

It sure isn’t the story, because there are few surprises (although, to be fair, there are a couple of moments which aren’t entirely expected).

The confusing thing is that the movie is resolutely feminist, yet trades on the very un-feminist element of hot chicks. I suppose this enables it to appeal to two apparently contradictory demographics.

The movie is a romp, which makes it a touch puzzling that Madelyn Stowe plays it very straight and serious.

But, taking everything into consideration, it is entertaining, undemanding, and easy on the eyes.

Bad ___

Cody Zamora (Madeleine Stowe), Anita Crown (Mary Stuart Masterson), Eileen Spenser (Andie MacDowell), and Lilly Laronette (Drew Barrymore) are prostitutes in the small Colorado town of Echo City. Cody kills a particularly rough client beating on Anita who refuses to kill anybody after the death of her true love. She is about to be hung when the girls rescues her. They are pursued by Pinkerton detectives Graves and O’Brady hired by the widow. Anita has a homestead claim in Oregon that she wants to start a saw mill with. Cody has over $12k to make the start. When the Pinkertons catches up at the Texas bank, Cody’s old partner Kid Jarrett (James Russo) shows up to rob the bank and he takes her money to lure Cody to him. Eileen is captured by the town and Cody gets beaten by Kid Jarrett rescued by Josh McCoy (Dermot Mulroney).

This was a great opportunity for women to lead a western. It should be a lot more than what this movie actually turned out to be. The sets look cheap and the style looks weak. This needs a great director to push a gritty tough style. Director Jonathan Kaplan has fallen into TV show directing after some early big screen success and there is a good reason for that. His style isn’t cinematic or grand enough for a big adventure movie. The visual style is lacking. The ladies are all terrific actresses. The story rambles on and on. The tone is all over the place. This is a mess. There is a bit of good action at the end, but it’s too little too late.

“I’ve shown you mine, you show me yours”.

My summary line sounds a lot more risqué than it actually is. Turns out Kid Jarrett (James Russo) was talking about his hostage McCoy (Dermot Mulroney), while Cody Zamora’s (Madeleine Stowe) offer in trade was a new fangled Gatling gun. So all you readers with a dirty mind, you don’t have to go back and look it up.

Quite out of habit now, I enable captioning while watching movies because even though I got hearing aids recently, I’ve realized that sometimes the person doing the captioning will go out on a limb and have some fun at the expense of his employer. (See my review for “The Telegraph Trail”). In this picture, there was a scene in which the Pinkerton Detectives were questioning Josh McCoy, and the term was used twice, but captioning had it as ‘Peckerton Ditinctives’. Once might have been a goof, but someone, somewhere had to work at being consistent. If you’re watching this flick on Encore Westerns, check it out for yourself before someone is called to task for it.

Tell you what, I like it when a story line has their principals stay in character at the expense of personal safety. This one had two neat touches, the first was when McCoy shot Frank Jarrett (Robert Loggia) for bad mouthing McCoy’s mother; the other was when Lilly (Drew Barrymore) shot scumbag Ned (Neil Summers) for being just that, a scumbag. Both instances were problematic for completing the mission, but turned out well enough for the good guys, should say gals, to come out on top.

So maybe not the most credible of Western movies, but kind of entertaining in it’s own way. The female leads are in it for their eye candy appeal, with Drew Barrymore taking top honors in that particular department. That they started out as harlots working an Echo City ‘parlor house’ didn’t seem all that credible once the action started, since virtually every close-up of the girls was carefully framed to highlight their glamorous looks. In Barrymore’s case, the camera guy probably needed a cold shower between takes.