Product Details

• Actors: Nancy Allison Wolfe, Liza D'Agostino, Camila Griggs, Michael Harris, Justine Slater
• Directors: Marita Giovanni
• Writers: Lauran Hoffman
• Producers: Michael Ferris, Marita Giovanni, Doug Lindeman, Lauran Hoffman, Nicole Ferris
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Video Transfer, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Orion
• VHS Release Date: August 18, 1998
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792899334
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #455,193 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Director Marita Giovanni's gay romantic comedy suffers all the earmarks of low-budget cinema--some uncertain performances, pedestrian plotting, and a bad theme song--and, despite some comic observation, never completely recovers from them. Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) and Rachael (Liza D'Agostino) meet at a lesbian pit stop in Los Angeles, fall in love, and cause each other misery. Wolfe, playing a Woody Allen-ish neurotic, has a way with screenwriter Lauran Hoffman's wit and supplies most of the film's passing pleasures. The characters' emotions, however, soon seem to change from second to second: the pair hooks up scant minutes after the opening, then spends every following moment running romantically hot-and-cold. Somewhere around the halfway point the film loses its mind, with off-key dramatics and some truly awful therapeutic dialogue (Loretta realizes "I really want to love me"). This may be an ode to human fickleness, but it's woefully out of control in these hands. --Steve Wiecking

Customer Reviews

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kinda cheesy, but enjoyable nonetheless, February 10, 2005

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S. Stinson "book lover" (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not that great, May 31, 2000

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

I was disappointed. After reading positive reviews I felt the storyline was dumb, the acting poor and the relationships unbelievable. Rent before you buy.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Grand Ole Film!, January 10, 2000

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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!

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!