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The mating rites and the accompanying mind games of L.A. lesbians are uncovered in this knowing romantic comedy. Lauran Hoffman's script (based on her autobiographical play) centers most of the action at the West Hollywood Girl Bar where "love" comes easy and often for its denizens and where warm flesh can sometimes be only a tequila away. Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe), a writer and one of the bar's bed-hopping regulars, meets and all-too-quickly falls for the self-assured Rachel (Liza D'Agnostino), a bewitching aspiring actress. Their union is threatened, however, when J.R. (Camilla Riggs), an attractively butch cop, enters the scene. The sex-induced theatrics of these and other characters are detailed in both a humorous and dramatic fashion and, unlike the buoyantly chipper Go Fish, the women in Bar Girls are not entirely likable. While the acting is unremarkable, the staging uninspired and the production values minimal, the film nevertheless is endowed with spunky charm which ultimately wins the viewer over.