In COYOTE UGLY an aspiring songwriter violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) leaves her small-town home & her supportive father (John Goodman) for New York City in hopes of starting a music career But life in the big city is harder than she imagined Feeling defeated & unemployed she hears about a job opening at a bar called Coyote Ugly & persuades the bar owner Lil (Mario Bello) to give her a chance among the bar's beautiful brigade of bartenders When violet arrives for work the bouncer tells her it's a quiet night but when she goes inside the bar she is hit by a wall of throbbing music & howling men Two women are atop the bar pulling a customer back over it pulling up his shirt & pouring beer on his chest Welcome to COYOTE UGLY How will violet deal with the bar How will it deal with her What of her songwriting plans Inside this raucous raunchy movie coproduced by Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer (FLASHDANCE) is a sweet romance between violet & Kevin (Adam Garcia) a refreshing escape from the chaos of the bar