davidjanuzbrown It is strange how many people dislike this movie. It is a Western Classic that has a lot to offer. Great scenery and the ability to look at Lilly ( Drew Barrymore), Cody ( Madeleine Stowe) and Eileen ( Andie MacDowell); Mary Stuart Masterson ( Anita) was never much to look at. They are four prostitutes who have plenty of misadventures in the Old West. Three of the four suffer on screen physical abuse( only Eileen doesn't), and are accused of crimes they did not commit ( Cody killed in Self defense saving Anita from abuse), and allot them accused of a bank robbery they did not do. The men in this movie do not look very good: They were all criminals and ( or) fake, except William ( James LeGros) who is the naive good guy rancher who is dismissed by everyone in the movie except Eileen. The two main characters are Cody, a former outlaw who ran with Kid Jarrett a really nasty outlaw, and Eileen who was a ranchers daughter. Those two were the nicest of the Bad Girls. Lilly. ( a former rodeo star) was mean, Anita ( a pioneer woman ) was hard, while Cody ( although a former outlaw) was the leader who cared about the girls and about a man named Josh McCoy who was spoilers ahead; Murdered by Kid Jarrett. Eileen was actually a good girl gone wrong. One of the most interesting lines of the movie happened between Eileen and Lilly when they went to William's Ranch and Eileen said "My daddy said it was not the railroad but barbed wire that tamed the ranch." Lilly said "You knows lot about Grub Ranches for someone from New Orleans." She told her " I grew up on a ranch not much different then this before the bank took it away." She then said to herself "It has possibilities." Spoilers: At the end all of the girls are going to go to the Klindike to dig for gold ( Cody had Josh's claim), but Eileen did not want to go. She was happy that William offered her the opportunity to share this place with him. She told him the truth about her but said "It's all I the past." And said all I ever wanted was to get off of this diary pile ( the ranch) and all I got was a few fancy dresses and a broken heart. He said I have this land I got no money but I swear I will never break your heart. Since the girls were able to recover the money from the bank robbery Eileen and William will get the reward and will be okay. It is interesting that the other girls would rather go dig for gold then remain behind and be heroes. Everyone in this movie really pays a severe price for their actions except Eileen ( who is lucky to have a man like William who takes ( and loves her) for who she is). 10/10 Stars

bard-32 ....have more fun. Bad Girls is about four "soiled doves," Cody Zamora, (Madeline Stowe,) Anita Crown, (Mary Stuart Masterson,) Eileen Spenser, (Andie McDowell,) and Lily Laronette, (Drew Barrymore. Anita's abused by a client, and her friends promptly shoot him. Cody's almost lynched but they make good their escape, and meet up with Josh, a prospector on his way to Oregon to stake his claim. Meanwhile, the Pinkertons, in the form of detectives O'Brady, and Graves, are hired by Colonel Clayborne's widow to find them because she has a very low opinion of the law in the town. Cody, Anita, Eileen, and Lily, are in another town, where Cody tries to withdraw her money from the bank. Kid Jarret, an outlaw, and his gang, rob the bank, taking Cody's money, which totals over $12,000. Cody goes after Kid and finds his hideout. She meets Kid's father, who stole Josh's father's claim, and whom Josh wants did. Cody's beaten by Kid, and brought back to town. Will, a poor rancher, is deputized, by the town marshal, and is taken in by Eileen, who was left behind by Cody, Anita, and Lily, when she couldn't mount her horse. Lily's taken by Kid and held hostage. Kid plans to steal a shipment of Army rifles, and a Gatling gun. Anita, who's a widow, has a homesteading claim in Oregon, but can't make good on it because her husband's dead. Kid wants to have Lily as the gang's personal whore. Kid and his gang steal the shipment of Army rifles, and the Gatling gun, and Cody, Anita, and Eileen, steal the Army rifles and Gatling gun, from Kid and his gang. They also take Kid's father, whom they plan to trade for Lily. Josh kills Kid's father and they go to Kid's hideout to rescue Lily. Cody, Anita, and Eileen, rescue Lily and shoot up Kid's hideout. Kid's out of ammunition so Cody takes a bullet from her Winchester rifle, gives it to him, and tells him to shoot and die like a man. OUCH! THAT WAS COLD! I've always wanted to say this so here goes, Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Eileen helps Will pitch hay to his stock, and confesses to him that she's not from New Orleans. Her father was a dirt rancher from East Texas and she wanted to marry a rich man but all she ended up with was a broken heart. Cody gives Will some of her money so he can pay the mortgage on the ranch. Then Cody, Anita, and Lily, head for the Klondike. In Oklahoma, Graves asks a homesteader if he's seen her, and he says no. She's probably far away by now. This, as she and her two friends, are riding north. A good movie.

AnusPresley This film could easily be dismissed (deservedly) as yet another McMovie off the assembly line, but for one thing - it appears to be a really lame homage (as opposed to blatant rip off) to the mother of all westerns, _The Wild Bunch_ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/). The opening features a Temperance Union march and the ending with a (lame and bloodless) shootout, complete with gattling gun - from which the heroines walk away unscathed and without a hair out of place. Everything in between is peppered with stuff lifted from _Wild Bunch_ - bandits robbing a US army arms shipment to sell in Mexico most prominent, and the lead up to the finale of the 4 gals on horseback riding into bandido town to rescue a compatriate is a carbon copy. Even chunks of dialog are lifted - "Well why dontcha all kiss my sister's black cat's ass"...This is more than simply bad - its insulting. Peckinpah must be spinning in his grave.

Richard Green Enabled by the magic of Encore on cable television, I was able to attempt to enjoy two viewings of "Bad Girls" from 1994. I do say attempt to enjoy ....What a rancid excuse for a western.Seldom in the tumultuous history of Hollywood has more talent and more authentic costuming gone to waste, than it does in this crippled dog of a movie. Before ranting any more, however, I will say certain things in defense of these four starring actresses: Andie MacDowell is a scintillating screen beauty, and a talented woman with dramatic flair: she absolutely made "Groundhog Day" a delight to watch and enjoy, and she was so very believable as the starry-eyed television producer stuck with Mr. Obnoxious Weatherguy, Bill Murray.Drew Barrymore, then nineteen years of age, is not among my favorites in the new generation of Girl Toys On Film but she was so easy to look at, that it was easy to forget how wooden her characterization was.Mary Stuart Masterson is a class act. Wasted in this dog of western.Madeleine Stowe has also proved herself as a contemporary screen actress of the first order. She gave an extraordinary performance as "Cora Munro" in "The Last Of The Mohicans" from 1992. Holding her own against a dynamic presence like Daniel Day-Lewis was no small accomplishment. She had several scenes with Jodhi May, as her younger sister Alice, that completely captured the tension and the panic of the moments in that revered classic by James Fenimore Cooper.Furthermore, 1994 was a good year for Madeleine Stowe Mora, as she starred in "Blink," which was very good, and "China Moon," which was really good. The premise of "Bad Girls" should have been a slam-dunk for the talent she was exhibiting at that time, but instead -- and here the Director, Jonathan Kaplan, has to take the flogging -- her character of Cody Zamora is neither lovable nor believable. Maybe the script was faulty, but a good Director has to find a way to nag the producers and the screenwriters to get what he wants for the shooting schedule. Afterall, most screenwriters want to get a good movie on film and the rules stipulate that they can get paid extra for doing rewrites while principal shooting is on-going. This could have been a classic modern western, in the mold of "Chuka" with Victoria Vetri and Rod Taylor or "Silverado." It could have explored the cultural clash going on in the latter part of the 1800s between the rough-hewn and easy-going pioneers and the next generation of western settlers, who brought Temperance and religious fundamentalism into the little towns of the prairie and of the arid southwest. Claire Bloom took the same material -- the character of a beautiful prostitute with a soft heart -- and shaped the character to be a successful compliment to John Wayne's tough, earnest, Ringo Kid.So in Stagecoach from 1939, the entire plot moves around the fulcrum of this tension between the woman of easy virtue and the stiff-necked Puritanism of the new settlers, and brings the viewer into the emotional conflicts of the nine passengers on that stagecoach to Lordsburg. The Ringo Kid, seeking the less-than-noble object of revenge for the death of his brother, is redeemed by the love of Dallas the 'no-good saloon trollop.' Would that John Ford could have had command of the lens which captured Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Madeleine Stowe and Andie MacDowell around a campfire, eating rattlesnake. Now, THAT would have been a movie worth viewing twice. "Bad Girls" gets a 2 vote instead of a 1 vote because the costumes were extremely well done.