Coyote County Loser

Totally believable...I live in S.W. New Mexico and the population density here is sparse, to say the least. Good story line, fine acting, no profanity (o.k. he does say 'crap' but they work for station K-RAP for heaven's sakes). I can recommend this movie to anyone.

This movie is of the boy-meets-girl variety and manages to hold one's interest from start to finish. The support actors are a bit above Night of the Living Dead quality and certainly add to the simple charm of the movie. Several sub-plots are present to give the movie some depth and the setting has plenty of charm.

(Note: Early in the movie Jack should have asked Dr. Hartford if she used the same NNCL for selecting a car that she advocated for selecting a boy friend. During her radio broadcast she suggested that normal folks used better sense in selecting an automobile than they used selecting a mate. Possibly Dr. Hartford's auto troubles were put there for a reason.)

Don't start watching Coyote County Loser expecting realism. For starters, the entire county seems to consist of about 30 people, a listener base that seems somehow able to support a full-time roster of talk radio personalities in the middle of the desert.

Some of these personalities, like the host of the Conspiracy Hour, are quite funny.

But the story really revolves around two of the talk radio DJs - cynical and logical Lauren Hartford (played with spunk by Nikki Boyer) and the charming, impulsive Jack Proctor (played by Beau Clark).

Jack has gotten stuck in town for a bit on his way to a big-city DJ job in Los Angeles and ends up competing with local personality Lauren to see whose version of love makes the most sense.

Should the town's ladies continue to listen to Lauren and compare their menfolk against Non-Negotiable Check Lists (NNCLs)? Or should the men use romance and charm (not to mention the occasional shower and breath mint) to sweep the objects of their affection off their feet.

The big studios have mostly given up on little stories with a slice of American flavor that show people concerned with the most momentous issues of all - who to choose as a life partner, who deserves to be given the key to your heart.

In short, for those who like some laughs, some romance and a nice dose of witty reparte, Coyote County Loser turns out to be a real winner.

7 August 2013. This romantic comedy follows in the footsteps of Doc Hollywood (1991), He Said, She Said (1991), and more recently has elements found in Morning Glory (2010). What seems to be memorable about this movie is the nasty and almost acidic and cold relational encounters between Lauren and Jack that almost tears the comedic tolerance tone of the movie. However, as such romantic movies mostly go, the bad goes with the good, and the polar extremes allows the good to be a might better because of the contrast. There is happiness and sadness in the movie's plot, there's relational insight and a comparative offering about romance and love.

The movie focused primarily on the two stars in the movie, with brief glimpses into other characters, though the other on the air broadcasters were indeed pretty much ignored and cut short in this 90 minute movie. In some respects the ending might have been more intriguingly different and the opportunity was there, but the script didn't risk being more independent and different in its approach to the classic romantic comedy. The movie was great about avoiding stereotypes, incorporated ultimately a balanced perspective about relationships with integrity, nevertheless, it still seemed to be overly convenient and a tad simplistic in its overall presentation of its major theme about love.

I loved this film. I also loved the similarly themed Doc Hollyood, with Michael J. Fox in the 80s. Only in that movie, the town itself and the conflict between big city and small town life played larger roles. This one was primarily a love story.

I've never heard of anyone in this film, but they all did an amazing job. Nikki Boyer, the female protagonist, was totally believable as the all-talk/no-action academic. There's no explanation for why she looks like she may be from India, yet her deceased screen dad was a rancher in New Mexico. Maybe she was supposed to be part Native American, or Hispanic.

Beau Clark, the male lead played his role as part alpha male/part city slicker/part vulnerable everyman with precision, while making it look easy.

I am so tired of movies about fighters, psycho killers, sex-crazed teens, and dysfunctional families. This one thoroughly entertained me without one use of profanity and zero sex. Nice job.

It renewed in me, a boyish optimism about love that I thought had long departed. It also prompted me to contemplate how true love smooths out other existential decisions. When you're in love, you can accept your fate without wanting much more. Or so the film says.

Populate your evenings with films and values like this, and you'll live a blessed life.

Great movie, you may think, wow, he's just a "fan boy". But truly, this movie made me laugh, made me cry, had me in serious thought, it just touches you. Also is so very enjoyable to watch a movie that brings out all of those emotions, and yet is only PG. It lacks all the trash that most movies today have injecting into them. There is only one word said that would be considered "bad", Jack says "crap" once. And for a romance movie in today's world, this qualifies to be watched by most children, yet it still portrays the story extremely well. I do have to admit I would not rush out and take a ten year old to watch it because it does have some scenes that are not inappropriate, just could be a bit hard for a younger child to comprehend, and/or handle. Hope you can watch it soon, or have watched it and enjoyed it.