Set It Off
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | F. Gary Gray |
Writers: | Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford |
Director of Photography: | Marc Reshovsky |
Editor: | John Carter |
Music: | Christopher Young |
Production Designer: | Robb Wilson King |
Producers: | Dale Pollock and Oren Koules |
New Line; R; 105 minutes | |
Release: | 11/96 |
Cast: | Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, John C. McGinley, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, Anna Maria Horsford, Ella Joyce, Charlie Robinson and Chaz Lamar Shepard |
Waiting to Exhale meets Boyz N the Hood. Sick of being victims of a system that treats poor black women as criminals, four plucky Los Angeles women, Stony (Pinkett), Cleo (Latifah), Frankie (Fox) and Tisean (Elise), see crime as their way out and pull off a series of bank robberies. Their heart-wrenching personal tales will have you cheering for them from one frenzied heist to the next. A Cinderella story with bank executive Keith (Underwood) and Stony adds some unnecessary fluff to an unpredictably wild ride.
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