Bad Girls (1994)

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Movie
German title Bad girls
Original title Bad girls
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jonathan Kaplan
script Ken Friedman
Yolande Turner
Albert S. Ruddy (Story)
production Lynda fruit
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Ralf D. Bode
cut Jane Kurson
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Bad Girls is an American feature film , western , released in 1994 . The director was Jonathan Kaplan and the script was written by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner . The main roles were played by Madeleine Stowe , Mary Stuart Masterson , Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore .

action

Cody Zamora runs a brothel in Texas where Anita Crown, Eileen Spenser, and Lilly Laronette work. One day Anita is mistreated by one of the customers, Cody shoots the man in self-defense. For this she is supposed to be hung on the gallows, her friends save her and they flee together.

Josh McCoy tells the women that the dead man's widow hired the Pinkerton Agency detectives to find her. The women want to start a new life in Oregon and claim the land that Anita inherited when her husband died of cholera. Cody is ready to provide her savings as start-up capital for the planned sawmill.

You go to the bank that has Cody's money. When you try to withdraw your money, you will be caught by the Pinkertone detectives who want to arrest you. When she is led away by the detectives, Kid Jarrett, a bank robber and former lover of Cody, joins them. He helps her escape by incapacitating the detectives, then robbing the bank, taking Cody's money and telling her to look for him. During the escape, the southern beauty Eileen is captured because she does not get on the horse in time. Cody decides to follow Kid Jarrett and the money and tells Anita and Lilly to wait in hiding. But Anita and Lilly return to town to free Eileen from prison.

Cody's meeting with Kid Jarrett and his father Frank Jarrett doesn't go well as he hasn't forgiven her for leaving him. He knocks her down with a whip. She is later found unconscious on her horse by Josh, who takes her to a Chinese healer and distracts the Pinkerton detectives.

Josh, Cody and the three friends meet on the farm of jailer William Tucker, whom they outsmarted while trying to escape Eileen. William accepts her because he's interested in Eileen. Josh and Cody get closer. Kid and his gang raid a US Army train transport and loot a machine gun. The four friends, Josh and William, want to take revenge on Kid Jarrett, set an ambush, hunt down the booty and kidnap Frank Jarrett, kids' father. William is injured but is able to escape and Lilly is captured by the kids gang.

Back at Williams Farm, Anita no longer wants to be responsible for the revenge-driven failures. She visits a lawyer in town and learns that the claim is only worth something in the hands of her husband, since as a woman she cannot claim any land in Oregon. Frank Jarrett, a prisoner who has the family of Josh on his conscience, insults Josh's mother until Josh shoots him. Cody sends Josh away because she can no longer exchange Frank for Lilly. Cody, Anita and Eileen go out to save Lilly. The injured William stays behind and takes care of his farm.

Meanwhile, Lilly is raped by Kid Jarrett. Josh frees her single-handedly, but is himself captured. Lilly meets her friends and tells them that Josh has been caught. You ride on to Kid Jarrett's hiding place. In exchange for the tortured Josh, they offer the machine gun they have with them on a mule. Kid agrees, but shoots Josh as soon as the machine gun is handed over. Kid throws her money at Cody's feet. While the four women withdraw, Lilly is insulted by a member of Kids' gang until she shoots him. This triggers an exchange of fire in which all members of Kids Gang are killed. The four women bury Josh and take the loot from the bank robbery.

Back at the farm, Eileen and William decide to get married. The booty is divided. Lilly, Cody and Anita turn west to start a new life.

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Reviews

The film received mixed reviews. In the Hamburger Abendblatt , he was as photographed glamorous and fast-paced referred, in TV movies as filmed opulent and rapidly .

"A story about women in the West is a good idea, since the genre has so far been male-dominated, but not Kaplan's shallow film that looks like a fashion spread."

- Rotten Tomatoes

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Others

According to the original plans, Tamra Davis would direct with Lisa Rinzler on camera. In the middle of the preparations, the producers hired Kaplan to direct, and Lisa Rinzler was replaced by Ralf D. Bode. The budget was increased to US $ 20 million and the concept of the script was changed significantly by softening the feminist accents that were initially planned.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gwendolyn Audry Foster: Women Film Directors. An International Bio-critical Dictionary. London: Greenwood Press 1995, p. 100.