Jada Pinkett Smith
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).
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.
- (19K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- F. Gary Gray
- 1996-11-06
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 ...
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- F. Gary Gray
- R
- Jada Pinkett Smith
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Nov 6, 1996 · “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 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).
Having reached a point of desperation, a group of four best friends turn to robbing banks after working dead end jobs and living under various systemic oppressions. A string of successful jobs has them building to one last big score with a detective hot on their heels and the trust between the women starting to fade.
Nov 6, 1996 · Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise star as four African American women living in a Los Angeles housing project who--pushed to the edge--resort to violence to escape poverty in this searing, intimate and action-packed look at real life on America's mean streets. Now get out of the way as the ladies Set it Off.
