Overlooked Movies -- Bad Girls

Bad Girls has a terrific (and terrifically appealing) cast, and while it's fun, it's not the movie that Bandidas is.  It's much more serious, and it could've done with a lighter touch.  It's too dang serious and its feminist message is pretty heavy-handed.  Still, you aren't going to get me to complain too much about a western starring Andie McDowell, Madeline Stowe, Mary Stewart Masterson, and Drew Barrymore, all of them looking as if they just stepped out of a Hollywood beauty salon, even in the toughest situations.

The four stars are all soiled doves working in a small-town saloon as the movie opens.  (One of the unanswered questions is why there's not a line of guys around the block.)  Cody (Stowe) kills a customer who's abusing Anita (Masterson), and the four women go on the run, with the Pinkertons right behind (they're hired by the widow of the man Cody killed).  There's bonding.  There are captures.  There are escapes.  There are pursuits.  There's a lot of shootin'.  And an explosion or two.  

Kid Jarrett (James Russo) and his father (Robert Loggia) are the hissable villains, and and there's a big shootout at the end.  The movie doesn't leave a cliche untouched.  I really can't recommend it very highly, but I like watching the four stars ridin' and shootin'.