"Coyote Ugly" is the story of a naive small-town girl who follows her dream to the Big City, where she is caught up in the
violent, sexual world of bartending. Doe-eyed Violet (Piper Perabo) leaves South Amboy, N.J., for New York City, hoping to become a songwriter. Plagued by chronic stage fright, though, she can't perform the songs herself, nor can she make any headway in the music industry in order to sell them to professional singers. So she does what any girl would do: She gets a job at a bar called Coyote Ugly, a rowdy Parthenon of rampant sexism where the bosomy bartenders don't pour drinks nearly as often as they set fire to them and douse customers with them, taking time in between to dance on the counters, act sexually toward the clientele, and break any number of other health code and fire regulations.
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