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Widows
Why this pick
Like Set It Off, it turns financial pressure and institutional indifference into a tense, character-first crime story led by women whose loyalty is tested at every step.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1996 2h 3m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its women seize criminal power in a hostile city, combining gritty stakes, friendship under strain, and anger at systems that leave them little room to survive.
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Queen & Slim
Why this pick
For Set It Off’s urgent social rage and emotionally charged flight from authority, this is a stylish, intimate thriller centered on people pushed beyond ordinary choices.
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Why this pick
Its title characters’ unapologetic defiance and volatile female alliance echo the fierce outlaw energy of Set It Off, in a far more pulpy, stylized register.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Francesca "Frankie" Sutton (Vivica A. Fox) is a Los Angeles bank teller who witnesses a robbery. Although she had no prior knowledge of the robbery, the bank fires Frankie after the police uncover a connection between her and one of the three robbers. Frankie goes to work at Luther's Janitorial Services with her three best friends, Lida "Stony" Newsom (Jada Pinkett Smith), Cleopatra "Cleo" Sims (Queen Latifah), and Tisean "T.T." Williams (Kimberly Elise). Luther (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) treats them with disrespect and pays them paltry wages. Cleo states that they should rob a bank themselves. Frankie agrees, but Stony and T.T. are reluctant. However, when Stony's younger brother is gunned down by the police in a case of mistaken identity and T.T.'s son is taken away from her by Social services because she cannot afford to take care of him, they too now have the motivation to join the robbery.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jada Pinkett Smith
Stony
Ella Joyce
Detective Waller
Dr. Dre
Black Sam
F. Gary Gray
Guy Driving Low-Rider
Geoff Callan
Nigel
Natalie Desselle
Tanika
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Luther
Chaz Lamar Shepherd
Stevie Newsome