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Aug 9, 2022 · Directed by F. Gary Gray, the 1996 film is about four women who decide to rob a bank due to their financial hardships. This feature is also a benchmark in the careers of Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica ...
- Jeffrey Bowie Jr.
Nov 7, 2016 · Set It Off ’s Black feminist vision is clearest in the final scene, after Stony has fled to Mexico and called her Good Black man boyfriend (Blair Underwood) to say goodbye. In the closing shot ...
May 7, 2020 · Before Set It Off, I was the hot chick. I was out all night, I’d modeled before, and I think people saw me a little bit bougie. Like, the uppity pretty girl. Not knowing that I grew up two ...
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Oct 1, 2019 · Set It Off follows four Black women in L.A., struggling to find a way to live freely under the boot of capitalism. Stony (Jada Pinkett-Smith), Frankie (Vivica A. Fox), Cleo (Queen Latifah), and T.T. (Kimberly Elise) are close friends who have lived in the same hood their entire lives, and in addition to their economic woes, we also witness them ...
Set It Off is a 1996 American heist drama crime action film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford. The film stars Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberly Elise (in her film acting debut). It follows four close friends in Los Angeles, California, who plan to execute a bank robbery —each doing ...
Nov 8, 2021 · Bank robbery movies weren't new territory (Michael Mann's Heat hit theaters just a prior to Set It Off), but to see Black women in such a film was an unexpected breath of fresh air. And those four leads (Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise and Dana Owens, aka Queen Latifah) became etched in Black popular culture.
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Sep 20, 2019 · Why. Set It Off. is an era-defining film that shouldn't be remade. We are clearly in the age of reboots and remakes, but the '90s heist film is irreplaceable. This era of constant remakes is ...
