Search results
1996 · 2 hr 3 min. R. Thriller · Action · Crime · Drama · Independent. Four African-American women in Los Angeles, all in dire financial circumstances, resort to robbing banks with action-packed, tragic consequences. Subtitles: English. Starring: Jada Pinkett Queen Latifah Vivica A. Fox Kimberly Elise Blair Underwood. Directed by: F. Gary ...
Nov 6, 1996 · There is an interesting intelligence at work in Set It Off. This, a number of far-better-than-average performances, and a kind of unique naivete all combine to make a film that, like the robberies these women commit, might have gone terribly awry and didn't. [15 Nov 1996, p.L30]
May 7, 2020 · In my deeply humble opinion, Set It Off is the best, most affecting heist film ever made. You can keep your Oceans and your Jobs (Italian, Bank), your endlessly adapted Bonnies and Clydes. I’ll ...
Stony, Frankie, Cleo és Tisean, a négy barátnő jóban-rosszban kitart egymás mellett. Sőt még azon túl is. Frankie-nek ugyanis támad egy ötlete: ki kell rabolniuk egy bankot ahhoz, hogy elég pénzük legyen és végre úgy élhessenek, ahogy mindig is szerettek volna. Cleo azonnal igent mond, a másik két lányt viszont győzködni kell egy kicsit. Miután ráállnak a dologra, hamar lendületbe jönnek és az egyik akció követi a másikat. Ténykedésükre a rendőrség is ...
Director: F. Gary Gray, F. Gary Gray, F. Gary Gray, F. Gary Gray, F. Gary Gray, F. Gary Gray 1996 / 123min / 35mm. A long time before hitting pay dirt with Straight Outta Compton, Gray directed another, far more radical supergroup movie.
Director F. Gary Gray infuses the heist genre with bracing emotional clarity, sensitively yet unsentimentally dramatizing the challenges faced by working-class women of color who are forced to navigate an unacceptably inhospitable socioeconomic reality. This film screens as part of our Governors Island screening series, "Rule-Breakers and Troublemakers."
All Audience. Verified Audience. Latoya Austin Cinerama Film. Set It Off transcends and rewrites the classic heist movie through an all-female, all-black group of friends and their love for one ...
