Set It Off Page #6

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
12,508 Views


- Okay, okay, okay.

- F*** you! F*** your investigation!

You f***ing go to hell!

You son of a b*tch!

It's gonna be all right.

What do you got?

Stevie Newsom, no priors,

good student, headed for college.

I hear both parents killed in a car accident

four years ago.

Goddamn it.

Goddamn.

Damn.

Y'all she been throwing up for two days.

What we gonna do?

Let her get that sh*t out.

Somebody gotta stay with her.

I will.

I saw Stevie's hair in the bathroom.

I can't go... I can't go back in there.

I don't wanna go back in the bathroom

no more...

I never need to.

Oh, my, I don't wanna...

I don't wanna stay in here.

- I can't stay in here no more.

- Okay, okay.

No.

No, I want out of here. All of it.

No.

We can do this.

We can get some wigs,

some sunglasses and it's on.

Y'all are gonna have to do this

without me.

I keep thinking about Darnell getting killed

and Lorenz shot and Stevie...

That's because Darnell and them

were a bunch of damn fools.

They don't know half

of what I know about banks.

What if something goes wrong?

What if somebody gets hurt?

Listen to me.

Damn, you're just scared, baby.

Ain't nobody gonna get hurt.

That's why this is the perfect crime.

- I know this too well.

- What about all them folks money?

Insurance.

- Dumb-ass comment.

- Look...

...we just taking away from the system

that's f***ing us all anyway.

You know?

Let's do it.

Excuse me.

Hi, how are you? WOMAN: Hi.

Come on in.

- Go right ahead and have a seat.

- Thank you.

How can I help you today, Miss...?

- Dorsey. Yeah.

- Dorsey.

I'd like to open up a new account.

Oh. Uh...

Right this way.

You can open an interest-bearing account

with a thousand dollar deposit, if you like.

A thousand dollars?

Yeah.

Uh, do you...? Do you have long lines?

No, no, not too bad. We usually operate

typically with about 14 tellers. Uh...

Actually, Miss Dorsey,

I'm a manager in corporate banking upstairs.

I don't know what these folks do.

But when I saw you, I said to myself I said:

"Self, a woman that fine,

as fine as you are and you are that fine...

...needs to have

her own personal banker."

So I couldn't help myself.

She smiles, come on now.

Um...

Miss Dorsey, I'm new in town and

I swear to you I don't do this all the time.

I know you don't know me.

I don't know your plans...

...if you even have plans tonight.

Do you have plans tonight?

Are you asking me out?

Maybe.

Keith, well I see

you're in new accounts now, huh?

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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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