Set It Off Page #4

Synopsis: 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 boisterous lesbian; and Stony (Jada Pinkett), who is dealing with the recent death of her brother. The women are struggling with their finances, so they decide to start robbing banks. At first the group is successful, but they soon attract the attention of an obsessive detective (John C. McGinley).
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
1996
123 min
12,430 Views


- Cleo, that's because you live in a garage.

- Girl, it'll be okay.

And you, stay out of it.

Damn, look at my nails.

Girl, you been bitching all night.

Stony back there

acting all stink-a-dink-dink.

That's all right,

I got something for that head.

Ow, girl, that hurt. Girl.

Well, that's the only way

you get the knot out.

Yeah, I rolled this one good.

Blunt talking to a motherf***er.

Stop it, girl. Stinky.

Here.

Now, Cleo, I done told you,

I'm strictly dickly.

- See I'm gonna tell Ursula.

- You won't tell nobody.

Hey, check out Stony.

Look at her. Look at her.

Chronic always get her ass all quiet.

Look at her sitting over there.

Hey, you f***ed up, ain't you, girl?

What?

Why? What's wrong?

You know, every time we get high

you start looking like Sugar Bear.

For real.

Y'all are cold.

You do kind of look like Sugar Bear.

F*** all y'all.

Ooh.

Old simple b*tches.

Oh, Cleo, don't get salty.

Damn.

Before they started laying people off...

...they was paying folks

$15 dollars an hour at that place.

Oh, man, that's good money.

Nigga, for $15 dollars an hour, I'd be all:

"Full-ply radial. What I gotta do, sir?"

Ass motherf***er.

- They'd have to pull me off that machine.

- Sh*t, I know that's right.

Overtime would be like 22.50 an hour.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Now that Luther's

taking taxes out of my check...

...I'm making half as much as I used to.

Only way we gonna see cash

is we take a bank.

- Now, see, I'm with that sh*t.

- Y'all niggas done lost your mind.

- Might as well not even talk about this sh*t.

- Well, I'm talking about it.

Ain't nobody gonna stop me

from talking about it.

Well, talk is cheap.

Nigga.

Wake up, I mean, you know...

Frankie, you gonna get socked

dead in the eye.

- F*** it.

- Nigga, you're always talking sh*t.

First you wanna blow the bank up,

now you wanna rob it.

Frankie wanna blow up the bank. Oh!

Frankie wanna rob the bank.

Well, I ain't heard nothing about that.

No.

For real, though?

I said, hang up the phone.

You know who that is.

Yeah, I gotta go. I'll be over.

And don't drink up my champagne, man.

Peace.

Champagne?

Whatever, I ain't got time.

Look, did your sister come through for you

or what?

- Where'd you get this?

- Don't worry about where I got it...

...ain't your business, look at the digits.

Look.

- Stony, there's something I gotta tell you.

- Look, I know this is hardly enough money.

- But I swear I will get every...

- No, no, no. Listen to me.

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Takashi Bufford

Takashi Bufford was born on August 15, 1952 as Takashi A. Bufford. He is a producer and writer, more…

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