After a lifetime of being exploited by unscrupulous employers, pushed around by sleazy boyfriends, persecuted by the police, and unable to escape from the undertow of ghetto life by socially approved means, a quartet of Angelina women arm themselves to the teeth and bust up banks in this provocative and intriguing social drama.
cast
Blair Underwood as Keith Weston Jada Pinkett-Smith as Lida 'Stony' Newsom Queen Latifah as Cleopatra 'Cleo' Sims Vivica A. Fox as Francesca 'Frankie' Sutton
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Francesca 'Frankie' Sutton: The only way we gonna see cash is if we take a bank.
Cleo: Now see I'm with that shit!
Lida 'Stony' Newsom: Ya'll niggas done lost ya'll mind. We might as well not even tak about this shit no more.
Francesca 'Frankie' Sutton: Well I'm talkin' 'bout it. And ain't nobody gon stop me from talkin bout it.
Lida 'Stony' Newsom: Well talk is cheap... NIGGA!
SET IT OFF, which chronicles the attempts of four young black women to take control of their lives, may sound like it's treading a similar path to the one blazed by last year's tepid WAITING TO EXHALE, but nothing could be farther from the truth. In the first place, although SET IT OFF contains some dramatic elements, it is, first and foremost, an action/caper film. Secondly, all things considered, this is a much better picture.
