Product Description

Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore and Mary Stuart Masterson star in the wild Western story of four fallen women on the run. Branded as outlaws, pursued by a posse and tracked by Pinkerton detectives, the four must ride together to stay alive. But when they're double crossed by a gang of ruthless desperados, the women decide it's time to stop running, and start fighting! BAD GIRLS is a rough-riding, straight-shooting, fun-filled adventure that writes a whole new chapter in the lore of the Western hero!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11376 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-02-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Amazon.com
Viewers of this Hollywood-processed movie should prepare to suspend disbelief: the four prostitutes turned outlaws will have flimsy excuses for being adept in gun slinging, stunt riding, and world knowledge. But this Western trips over a poor script of laughable plot points (secret plans are left out for wandering eyes, loot is taken without resistance) and a story that sticks forever in second gear. Never better or worse than Young Guns, with these intelligent actresses only part of the scenery. Drew Barrymore comes off the best, along with James LeGros as a meek rancher. --Doug Thomas

From The New Yorker
Making a Western in which women are the main characters is a perfectly serviceable idea, but this picture's writers, Ken Friedman and Yolande Finch, just take a handful of conventional genre motifs and plug women into the slots that men have usually filled. This lazy approach makes the whole notion of a female Western seem like a stunt, a novelty act-and a dull-spirited one, at that. The fun of watching a gang of stunning prostitutes-turned-gunslingers (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore, and Andie MacDowell) doing lots of violent, tough-guy stuff wears off quickly, because there's no story to speak of. The director, Jonathan Kaplan, tries, and fails, to keep things lively by sprinkling the action with bizarre allusions to "The Wild Bunch." This movie is about as stimulating as a glass of sarsaparilla. Also with James Russo, Dermot Mulroney, James Le Gros, and Robert Loggia. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

I Have Always Loved This Movie
This movie has always been one of my favorites, and I'm happy to see that Fox has finally released it on DVD! Now I can finally throw-out my old, worn-out VHS-tape copy.

This movie has a good storyline, and the soundtrack is beautiful, as well as is the area in which it was filmed. A large portion of it was filmed in the breathtaking foothills near Jamestown, CA, and in the former Red Hills Ranch movie town of the same area. (You might recognize the town in this film as the same movie town also used in Back To The Future, Part III). Anyway, just enjoy this movie for what it is... an interesting storyline, with a great soundtrack, but where the women are the ones who prove to all that they can take care of themselves, when the situation warrants. A very enjoyable flick, and definitely a keeper!

What's not to like?
This movie does not pretend to be a serious effort in film making. It's a funny, not so serious movie that's eye and mind candy. Think of it as Charlie's Angels set in the 1870's. Madaline Stowe, Andie McDowell, Drew Barrymore play whores that are run out of one town and are trying to make their way to another. Along the way they run into Stowe's ex boyfriend who was not so kind to her before and even worse now. It's escapist fun and I recommend it heartily.

Female Outlaws In The Wild West (Which Makes A Nice Change!!!)
This is a very underrated movie about 4 women who are trapped by their circumstances in the Old Wild West. Mary Stuart Masterson and Andie McDowell are both prostitutes who dream of a better life and when that chance comes along they run with it into unknown and scary territory. All of the female leads in this movie give very solid and real performances and Drew Barrymore proves that she has indeed grown into a fine woman.I give this movie 5 stars because it is a novel concept which the makers of this film managed to realize very successfully.