The most disappointing aspect of the film, aside from some bad acting, is the fact that certain emotions that the audience should be compelled to feel are not attained. Armstrong), Badja Djola (the Doctor), Tiny Lister and LisaRaye (Diamond). Along the way various sub-plots involving a night club owner, school, moonlighting, and her stressful family life, all add up to make the story more interesting. Louis), Ronn Riser (Professor Mills), Dick Anthony Williams (Mr. Johnson (L'il Man), Ice Cube (Reggie), Alex Thomas (Clyde), Faizon Love (Peters), Charles Murphy (Brooklyn), Chrystale Wilson (Ronnie), Tracy Jones (Tina), With: Bernie Mac (Dollar Bill), Monica Calhoun (Ebony), Jamie Foxx (Blue), A.J. It includes much profanity, partial nudity and suggestive situations. This film is rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Written and directed by Ice Cube director of photography, Malik Sayeed edited by Suzanne Hines music by Hidden Faces production designer, Dina Lipton produced by Carl Craig and Patricia Charbonnet released by New Line Cinema. Which one chastened ex-stripper winds up selling shoes. There's something to be said for a cautionary tale in Campy moments and a luridly colorful look (with cinematography by Malik Sayeed) may give this no-flair, no-frills B movie a healthy video afterlife some day. Ice Cube, who plays a minor heavy and flaunts his trademark scowl, also throws in some broad humor, as when Diamond's nemesis (Chrystale Wilson) shows up at a bachelor party full of white policemen and starts spanking them in honor In a spirit of exploitation that invokes the heyday of Pam Grier, it also manages to turn Diamond into a pistol-packin' mama and work in a catfight or two. "We Be Clubbin"' and "You Know I'm a Ho." And yet for all its leering this is as soapy a film as "Soul Food," defending the empowering benefits of exotic dancing yet worrying about good girls In a film that sees its biggest moral distinction between dancing at the club and moonlighting at bachelor parties, song titles on the soundtrack include "Shake Watcha Mama Gave Ya," "Show Me da Money," "Whores in the House," LisaRaye as Diamond in the film "The Players Club." "All this dancin', and finals was just around the corner!" she complains, articulating the film's central dilemma: Diana is wholesome and nice, but she has to strut her stuff at the club for fiscal reasons. Set in what is euphemistically called "a gentleman's club," it constructs a 100 percent predictable soap opera around clean-cut Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye), who is a college student and single mom. He rapper Ice Cube makes his directorial debut with "The Players Club," a hearty throwback to the formula behind '70s blaxploitation films: sex, violence,Ĭash, trash and flash. The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.(Anthony) Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Ice Cube, Dick Anthony Williams, Tommy (Tiny) Lister, John Amos, Faizon Love, Alex Thomas, Chrystale Wilson, Adele Givens, Larry McCoy D: Ice Cube W: Ice Cube C: Malik Hassan Sayeed M: Hidden Faces. LisaRaye, Bernie Mac, Monica Calhoun, A.J. Cube brings both humor and reality to the seedy world of strip joints. While not in Woody Allen territory yet, Mr. Ice Cube appears as a customer who inadvertently lights the fuse for the movie's climax. Blue (Foxx) is the deejay who falls for Diana, and is persuaded to act honorably by Diana's disapproving (and target shooting) father (Williams). When her naive cousin Ebony (Calhoun) is lured into turning tricks by fellow stripper Ronnie (Wilson), trouble starts. Diana (LisaRaye) is a single mom and college student by day, and a dancer at a strip club owned by the bombastic Dollar Bill (Mac) by night. She persuaded the films protagonist, Diana, into quitting her shoe store job & working at the club for more money. Ronnie, along w/her friend/partner-in-crime Tricks, is the HBIC among the ranks of the dancers at the Players Club. Rapper-turned-auteur Ice Cube directs this look at the seamy and steamy world of strip clubs from his own screenplay. Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) is the main antagonist of the 1998 movie The Players Club.
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