Set It Off (1996)
Catch Jada Pinkett-Smith as Lida 'Stony' Newsom
Theatrical Release Date: November 6, 1996
Summary: Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.Review: Set It Off's girls 'n the hood are the kind of bank robbers you find yourself rooting for. This action-heist drama about four young African-American women from L.A.'s housing projects is as much a story about friendship as a story about crime. And although its chock-a-block construction is often disconcerting as it tries to pack too much information into too little space while the melodrama and action sequences battle with each other for attention, Set It Off is a movie that demands to be seen… and heard. Outgrowths of the successes of Thelma & Louise and Waiting to Exhale, this female quartet is comprised, nevertheless, of fresh and original characters. For Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah, their performances in this film are career-makers despite the fact that the script gives them too little to work with.
Jada Pinkett-Smith Movies:
- Collateral (2004)
- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Kingdom Come (2001)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- Mononoke-hime (1999)
- Return to Paradise (1998)
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Set It Off (1996)
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- The Nutty Professor (1996)
- Tales from the Crypt -- Demon knight (1995)
- A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
- Jason's Lyric (1994)
- The Inkwell (1994)
- Menace II Society (1993)