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Lida "Stony" Newsom
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Set It Off is a 1996 American heist 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 so for ...
Nov 6, 1996 · Set It Off: Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise. Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
- (18K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- F. Gary Gray
- 1996-11-06
Set It Off is 18706 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 15248 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Yellow Is Forbidden but less popular than Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss.
- Stony; Cleo; Frankie
- F. Gary Gray
- 1996
- 123 min
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Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other. Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail.
After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) begins working at a janitorial service with her friends Tisean (Kimberly Elise), a single mother; Cleo (Queen Latifah), a ...
- (1.6K)
- F. Gary Gray
- R
- Jada Pinkett Smith
Nov 6, 1996 · Takashi Bufford. “Set It Off” is advertised as a thriller about four black womenwho rob banks. But it's a lot more than that. It creates a portrait of thelives of these women that's so observant and informed; it's like “Waiting to Exhale” with a strong jolt of reality. The movie surprised and moved me: Iexpected a routine action picture ...
The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents' death, Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith) has had to act as a parent to her little brother Stevie (Chaz Lamar Shepard). She works in various capacities to make a future for ...
