Set It Off (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Set it off |
| Original title | Set it off |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | F. Gary Gray |
| script | Takashi Bufford |
| production | Takashi Bufford, Oren Koules , Dale Pollock |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | Marc Reshovsky |
| cut | John Carter |
| occupation | |
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Set it off is a 1996 film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Jada Pinkett Smith , Queen Latifah , Vivica A. Fox and Blair Underwood .
action
The story is about four friends who become bank robbers. Frankie is working in a bank when it is robbed. When it turns out that she knew one of the bank robbers briefly, her boss put her on the street. Stony works with Cleo and Tisean for a cleaning company, whose owner Luther pays them poorly than rightly. The lesbian Cleo dreams of a vintage car, Tisean is a single mother. Stony takes care of her younger brother Stevie, who is slated to go to UCLA , after her parents' fatal car accident . All four almost despair of their living conditions, money is always tight and the prospects are poor. After Stonie's brother Stevie is mistaken for one of the bank robbers and shot by mistake during a botched police operation, the four friends begin to deal seriously with the plan to rob a bank in order to deal with the racist and hopeless conditions in Los after initial teasing Losing Angeles and living a better life. When the child welfare service Tisean wants to take the little son away after an accident, they too decide after a long hesitation to take part. The four scout a bank and make a concrete plan to rob it.
After the first attack succeeded, the women rob other banks. The situation begins to escalate after Luther quit his company and the women discover that the loot hiding place at one of their workplaces is empty. They find the rest of the loot with their former boss, whom Tisean shoots while picking up a weapon. They're planning one final raid. Only Stony survived, who fled to Mexico .
Awards
Queen Latifah was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 1997.
The film won the 1997 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Black Film Award in three categories:
- Best Actress (Queen Latifah)
- Best Director ( F. Gary Gray )
- Best soundtrack
F. Gary Gray won the 1997 Special Jury Prize of the Cognac Festival du Film Policier.
Andrea Martin won the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award in 1998 for the song 'Don't Let Go (Love)'.
The film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in 1997.
In 1997 there were three nominations for the Image Award:
- Best Actress (Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith )
- Best Supporting Actor ( Blair Underwood )
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
criticism
"A typical example of contemporary violent action cinema, but staged with an eye for a milieu that has not yet been explored for cinema."
Web links
- Set It Off in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Set It Off at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Set It Off. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 9, 2017 .