Regular Price $14.98

Starring: Nancy Allison Wolfe,  Liza D'Agostino,  Camila Griggs,  Michael Harris,  Justine Slater, 
Directed By: Marita Giovanni, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1995-04-07
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  Subtitled,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Bar Girls

Description
Imagine a bar full of beautiful women who are not on a quest for Mr. Right but for Ms. Right, and you have Bar Girls. A contemporary look at the exhilarating highsand exasperating lowsof love, this breakthrough comedy follows the sexual escapades of a circle of friends who frequent the same watering hole and the same bedrooms! Featuring "sly, critically barbed humor and dead-on performances" (The New York Times), Bar Girls is "a riot" (LA Weekly)! Stood up yet again at LA's Girl Bar by her gorgeous but flaky girlfriend, TV cartoon writer Loretta fears she may never find her soulmate. But then in walks Rachael, an aspiring actress who more than catches Loretta's eye. The two fall head over heels in love until an attractive cop seduces one of them and then the other! Is this the end for Loretta and Rachael, or could it possibly be the beginning?

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 for Bar Girls

Bar Girls
I hate to say it, but I've been suckered a few times into buying Lesbian "R-rated" films. These flicks are sadly lacking in the nudity department, let alone the sexual arena. I guess if you were a Lesbian and just wanted to see Lesbians communicate, well then, maybe these flicks might just be for you. I refuse to by another "R-rated" movie. The "R" just tells me that the makers of these films were more concerned about Box Office receipts than actually making a provocative movie. From now on it's NC-17 baby. Lets hope more are produced in the future. "Lust,Caution" [NC-17] by the way, was an excellent film!Bar Girls

if you thought go-fish was bad
well then you haven't seen this!!! I saw this in a crowded art theater with quite a few other lesbians present. At one point the two main characters begin a dialogue about how they love each other. Trite enough in itself. Then one says to the other, "Well actually I don't always love you in fact sometimes I don't even like you." When finally my film going companion had enough and yelled out, "Well, I hate you both!" bringing the house down in a roar of laughter. She pretty much summed up my feeling. I hate this film. If you like bad movies and like to laugh at how stupid everyone can be then definitely watch this. Although it lacks the wonderful camp of showgirls. Which is another terrible film but at least its good-bad ya know? For a decent lesbian film When Night is Falling comes to mind or Bound for that matter.Bar Girls

Kinda cheesy, but enjoyable nonetheless
"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.Bar Girls

Glad I didn't buy it
I had thought about buying this DVD for a long time then it appeared on The Movie Channel, so I could see it for free. I almost couldn't stand to watch it even then. The acting is terrible and the situations between the women are even worse. I don't know why any of these characters would be considered attractive to anyone. If this is what is being used to represent lesbian culture, we're in worse shape than ever. Don't buy this. In fact, don't watch it.....even for free. Too bad I couldn't give it zero stars.Bar Girls

What I want to know is...
what happened to the gorgeous, husky-voiced, luscious, deliciously dykey Camila Griggs who plays the agressive cop J.R. Now, she is hot. My "ultimate dream girl" fantasy to quote her character in the movie.You could cast her as the Xena uber in any of those fan inspired novels with no leap of imagination whatsoever. Someone should've starred her in her own lesbian indie. The woman has got to have a following. It was great to see a strong, totally believable (and very attractive) amazon gay woman portrayed for a change.Bar Girls