Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.
James Le Gros
- William Tucker
- (as James LeGros)
Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to producer Lynda Obst, the original production design was essentially monochromatic, and the leading actresses had primary color costumes. During the brief halt in production and cast and crew replacements, a different production designer was hired and the costume and set concepts were retooled. One recurring problem in the original project was that the lead actresses were fighting over a red costume originally intended for Madeleine Stowe.
- GoofsA wad of hundred dollar bills seen briefly is obviously twentieth-century money.
Obviously it's twentieth-century money. There are no wads of 1890 hundred dollar bills around, available to the prop department. It was a passable effort at "of the period" bills. They couldn't make them too authentic - 1890 hundred dollar bills are rare and valuable.
- Quotes
Anita Crown: If your laws don't include me, well then, they don't apply to me either.
- Alternate versionsAn unrated video version featuring additional footage is available in the USA.
- SoundtracksShall We Gather at the River
Written by Robert Lowry
Performed by The Great Mother Lode Brass and Reed Band
Featured review
Opportunistic, meretricious, girl-power nonsense
A girl-power western for the MTV generation, Bad Girls blatantly rehashes plot elements from The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven but lacks the depth of characterisation, the moral seriousness and the real feeling for the Western's history that made those films such outstanding examples of the genre. Director Kaplan seems to think he's pulling off some revisionist coup by putting women in the central roles, but he offers only lame stereotypes which combine the hoariest of old Western cliches (they're prostitutes!) with the emptiest of post-feminist attitude-striking (they're the Spice Girls on horseback!). The real offence of the film, though, is its opportunism and dishonesty. These foxy chicks are ostensibly rebelling against the oppression of women, specifically their objectification as sexual objects. But as they kick ass Buffy- or Xena-style, the camera lingers on thier hot bods as it would in any soft porn exploitation flick. There's even a lesbian subtext to titillate the most jaded of gentlemen's palates. What purports to be some kind of feminist fable in fact has the sexual politics of your average issue of Loaded magazine. Better seek out the surreal Freudian poetry of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) or the down and dirty realism of Maggie Greenwald's The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) for Westerns that have something substantial to say about sex and gender.
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- Jul 15, 2003
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,240,435
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,012,200
- Apr 24, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $15,240,435
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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