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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9786305505792 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305505799 Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: TRNDN4787D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 14, 1999 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 06, 1996 Editorial Review: Product Description: In this powerful story of friendship desperation and vengeance four women decide to take on the system and try to get some payback by robbing the biggest banks in the city. As the money starts to flow however they discover that life is still as stressful as ever. Features: original theatrical trailer & more. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 01/23/2007 Starring: Jada Pickett Vivica A. Fox Run time: 123 minutes Rating: R Director: F. Gary Gray Amazon.com: Even when it misses a dramatic opportunity in favor of generic action, Set It Off benefits from a sharp understanding of its well-drawn central characters. They're a quartet of young African American women in Los Angeles (Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise), all struggling against a system that seems designed to prevent them from realizing their dreams. The movie establishes their plight with credible attention to emotional detail, making their decision to rob banks believable enough to give the ensuing plot its inevitably tragic momentum. Cowritten by the screenwriter of What's Love Got to Do With It?, the film conveys genuine compassion for its characters, and the ensemble cast is uniformly strong--especially Queen Latifah as a brash lesbian whose fate is as certain as her forceful attitude. Set It Off expresses a real sense that these women have been close friends for years, and that gives the film additional impact, even when their transition to crime and violence feels somewhat forced and superficial. A romantic subplot involving Pinkett and a social-climbing banker (Blair Underwood) is too contrived to be convincing, and director F. Gary Gray (Friday) tries too hard to combine hard-hitting action with social relevance (a weakness shared by Gray's following film, The Negotiator). Still, Set It Off effectively avoids passing judgment; its emotional complexity transcends simple notions of right and wrong, injecting vitality--and a kind of renegade integrity--into the traditions of a familiar plot. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "Set it off like Vivica!"...(Notorious Big)I ordered this one through Amazon, it's a classic and has Jada Pinkett in it...(pause for the cause)...she is fine! Ok, back to the review...I ordered it and it came within a few days which was cool cause, I really wanted to check it out. I won't go into the movie, you can read up on that if you choose but as far as my experience goes, I enjoyed the movie when it first came out and I still like to watch it from time to time. Ordering was easy and I suggest it for anyone's movie collection. YMMV. ... Read More Rating:  - reviewIam pleased with my purchases from amazon. they always get me my orders in a hurry and I will stay a loyal customer for years. Rating: - Kick a55 movie with a decent soundtrackAnother flick in my collection that gets frequent watches. Set It Off features four women that finally had it with being dealt fates bad hands. They come up with ideas to rob a bank. Of course, if the job is successful. Why not try it again? I mean, that's what I did... or would do. I will tell you this, these women are fine and we can share a hot tub for real. Threesomes is cool and even four but there is always room for one more. The acting is very solid to me and this group of bandits ... Read More Rating: - Not to be missed!Set It Off is a brilliant film about ordinary women driven to a life of crime by circumstances beyond their control. A sibling murdered by police, a child taken away unfairly by a social worker, an abusive employer -- that and more push them over the edge. The performances here are so wonderful, that you can forgive any flaw. You just may have seen this good-folks-gone-bad story line done before, but never quite so compellingly. Queen Latifa is a standout in the cast, and every one was outrageously ... Read More Rating: - The Best Movie I've ever seenA great movie with a great cast, this movie shows what can happen when you push a black woman to her last straw. From the beginning to the end this movie shows how easily one can be profiled as a criminal just by the company she keeps. Like how one of the characters were surrounded and killed by the SWAT team just because he had the same hair cut as one of the bank robbers. And he was a soon-to-be college student. There is a lot of emotions shown in this movie when the it takes you into each characters personal ... Read More |
