Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Jada Pinkett Smith Queen Latifah Vivica A. Fox Kimberly Elise Blair Underwood John C. McGinley Anna Maria Horsford Ella Joyce Charles Robinson Chaz Lamar Shepherd Vincent Baum Van Baum Thomas Jefferson Byrd Samantha MacLachlan Samuel Monroe Jr. WC Edmund L. Shaff Natalie Desselle-Reid Dr. Dre Bruce Williams Gordon Embry Charles Walker Geoff Callan Rosanna Iversen Jeris Poindexter Tamara Clatterbuck Tonia Rowe Big Daddy Wayne Mark Thompson Show All…
Jeannie Epper Tony Brubaker Dan Bradley Donna Keegan Frank Lloyd Spice Williams-Crosby Michael Adams Dick Hancock George P. Wilbur Bruce Paul Barbour Gerard 'Gus' Williams Kevin Beard Simone Boisseree Faith Minton Kelsee King-Devoreaux Phil Chong Rick Seaman Andrew DePalma Chris Howell George Marshall Ruge Ben Skorstad Barbara Anne Klein John Moio Hal Burton Dwayne McGee Bob Minor Alan D. Purwin Rick Avery Bob Bralver Rita Minor Michael J. Sarna Harry Wowchuk Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc Francine Morris Thomas L. Bellissimo Larry Holt LaFaye Baker Claudette James Denver Mattson John L. Bennett Vince Deadrick Jr. Conrad E. Palmisano Jadie David Perry Barndt Daniel W. Barringer Charles Belardinelli Roydon Clark Rosine 'Ace' Hatem Glory Fioramonti Fred Lerner Hubie Kerns Jr. Robair Sims
Andrew DeCristofaro Ken Teaney William Freesh Richard Lightstone Mike Moser David Farmer Ann Scibelli Jeffrey R. Whitcher Frank A. Fuller Jr. Harry Woolway Paul Menichini Elisabeth Flaum D. Chris Smith Alexander Gruzdev
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Top-tier 90s film, top-tier heist film, top-tier black film, top-tier buddy film. Hits all the cliches and still makes them work! Fun, tense, chaotic, driving, and extremely emotional. Black women carry and compartmentalize so much fucking pain and these women are so good at showing it with just their faces. Brought me to that full body precipice-of-tears shaky feeling multiple times. It's so good I started watching at 1am and still finished in one sitting. Yes, I am very sleepy!!
Another incredible black film for the "pissed i didn't see this as a child" canon. You can tell F. Gary Gray's bringing all of his music video sensibilities to this and it works. In a just world, he would've…
i am in pain....... man fuck cops and fuck capitalism.
also stan queen latifah
"What's the fucking procedure when you got a gun at your head?"
"You didn't even bother to ask me if I was thirsty, sister."
How many heist films are this attuned to the almost ritualistic humiliations that must be visited on those who would be desperate enough to try to rob a bank? Like so many of the best of the '90s genre directors, Gray uses methods for concision honed on music videos, sketching out a hell of Clinton-era malaise in neighborhoods deemed undesirable in minutes. But he proves equally skilled at patiently observing the looks traded between the leads as their sorrow and rage mounts, as well as how they navigate the mechanics of preparing a robbery with all the hustle they've previously shown just trying to raise the funds to…
Honestly my favorite girl gang of cinema
As classical a piece of exploitation as you're likely to get, practically an Arthur Marks movie only made in the 90's, with the same total empathy for criminal women that the film refuses to offer up as martyred saints.
why can't Blair Underwood give ME a massage while En Vogue plays
queen latifah never coming out bc it wasn't anyone's business but always doing gay roles and pulling off a so called 'straight' persona....legendaric
Pretty cool subversive spin on a typically macho genre in which veteran music video director F. Gary Gray cleverly stages a studio-budgeted heist action melodrama starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise as more of a criminal outlaw morality tale on the economically desperate, racist and militarized streets of LA. One that is both sensitively attuned to the tragedy, anger and motivating political realities of its 4-leading ladies (all of whom are great but Queen Latifah really blew me away), and stylishly-directed in a way where you really feel the sense of power and popcorn genre excitement generated by the means of fighting back against an unjust system that they've been forced to assume. Empathetic,…
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first viewing. i almost wanted to believe this would be a more triumphant 'girl power' movie but of course it isn't when roadblocks fall from every direction, to the point where a bank heist feels the fairest way out of systematic shittiness. there are a lot of joyous moments too -- heightened by seeing it with a great audience at BAM -- like getting high on the rooftop, blair underwood's corniness, QUEEN LATIFAH (!!!), but i spent the final act a weeping mess. could do without the cop redemption and would have liked more from cleo's gf.
35mm. BAM.
Support the girls.
The narrative of escape that pervades crime films always seems to end in some tropical paradise, blithely ignoring the weight of social, economic, and political problems that are present more or less everywhere, as if the warmth of the sun and grit of the sand can scour away the fact that racist, sexist, capitalist hegemony is a filthy scum ingrained in the fabric of every nation of this world. It is, like most tropes, deeply flawed, but also deeply satisfying, because it gives us the illusion just for a moment that we too could get away from this. Sadly, when that narrative is applied to stories about African Americans, the risk is that the implication is that the escape is…
