Set It Off is a 1996 action/crime/drama film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise (in her theatrical debut), as four close friends in Los Angeles, California who decide to plan and execute a bank robbery. They decide to do so for different reasons, although all four want better for themselves and their families.
Deal with this. The only breaks you get are the ones you take.
It's about c...
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Set It Off is a 1996 action/crime/drama film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise (in her theatrical debut), as four close friends in Los Angeles, California who decide to plan and execute a bank robbery. They decide to do so for different reasons, although all four want better for themselves and their families.
Deal with this. The only breaks you get are the ones you take.
It's about crime. It's about payback. It's about survival.
Four African-American women from the projects plan to rob banks in order to escape poverty and their harsh situations. Francesca 'Frankie' Sutton (Vivica A. Fox), is an intelligent yet self-righteous bank teller who loses her job after the bank where she worked gets robbed and several people are left dead, including two of the bank robbers. After being interrogated by Detective Strode (John C. McGinley), she reveals that she's familiar with one of the robbers because they live in the same...
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