Product Details

• Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo
• Directors: Jonathan Kaplan
• Writers: Albert S. Ruddy, Charles Finch, Gray Frederickson, Ken Friedman, Yolande Turner
• Producers: Albert S. Ruddy, Andre Morgan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: May 14, 1996
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630320127X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,977 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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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

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Have Always Loved This Movie, November 14, 2002

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This review is from: Bad Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What's not to like?, September 5, 2005

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Gary Roelli (Shullsburg, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Girls (Extended Cut) (DVD)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This movie could of been way better., February 15, 2007

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Jenny J.J.I. "A New Yorker" (That Lives in Carolinas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Girls (Extended Cut) (DVD)

I've seen this movie a couple of times over the years and thought it was decent. Like Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Bad Girls begins with the abuse of a prostitute whose vengeance sets the whole plot in motion. But in Bad Girls, plot development is synonymous with costume changes. Chaps, corsets, silks and flannel -- for women on the run who carry no baggage other than their historical baggage as former prostitutes, these four desperadoes scam more new outfits than a bevy of runway models. And at least one of them had to be packing a curling iron. But, okay, this is Hollywood after all, and what's the point of having four women starring in a movie if they don't at least look good, albeit illogical.

The really grievous problems with Bad Girls are its lack of plot and undeveloped characters. On the lam after the most trigger-happy of the bunch, Madeleine Stowe, kills a customer who's roughing up one of the other girls in the brothel, they have very little sense of purpose once they're on their own. With a vague plan of heading toward the Oregon Territory to run a sawmill, Bad Girls moves forward in episodic fashion as they encounter one difficulty (or love interest) after another. You can practically picture it as a weekly TV series that poses hour-long detours on the road to the elusive Oregon Territory. The barrenness of the plot would be less noticeable; however, if there were at least some solid characters to hang the story on. Stowe nicely plays the sternness of her character against the delicacy of her features but even her tough-gal posture is belittled when she is whipped by one man and rescued by another. Masterson, considering her range as an actress of intelligence and physical dexterity, is given surprisingly little to do. As for the others, MacDowell flirts and Barrymore pouts, though each does what she does very well.

The Cinematography is respectable, as is the directing for what the shooting schedule allowed. Not an extraordinary film, but one that entertains on one level. That and the sexual component really didn't need the exposure it received in this film. In other words it couldve been handled more tastefully, or axed altogether.