Set It Off Page #4

Synopsis: After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) begins working at a janitorial service with her friends Tisean (Kimberly Elise), a single mother; Cleo (Queen Latifah), a boisterous lesbian; and Stony (Jada Pinkett), who is dealing with the recent death of her brother. The women are struggling with their finances, so they decide to start robbing banks. At first the group is successful, but they soon attract the attention of an obsessive detective (John C. McGinley).
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
1996
123 min
13,122 Views


with the money?

Like I said, you will get a court date.

At that time,

the judge will decide what will happen.

No. No.

Please, you can't take my baby.

I'm gonna die without my baby.

Tisean, come on. Come on.

- I'm gonna die without my baby.

- Look, now, T.T., we gonna handle this.

Oh, God. STONY:
Come on.

F*** this sh*t.

You know what you got to do.

You know.

- You in? STONY:
Can't we just...

Come on, T.T.

Cleo, take the note to the

merchant teller. She will have 20 grand.

On Wednesdays, Sears makes a big deposit,

so she could have 35,000.

Can I give her the note,

tell her not to give bank money?

Cleo, you gotta tell her not to draw

from the right-hand clip.

If she draws from the right-hand clip,

she's setting off the alarm.

I say, "Don't give me bank money."

If you come out with that clip,

my gun is going in your mouth."

That's what I'm talking about.

- Let's go through plan B.

- Plan B?

The f*** this planning sh*t.

Why can't we just get buck

with these motherfuckers...

...go in there and take the money?

Why can't you just listen for once?

- Plan B, Frankie.

- All right, plan B.

Stony, when Cleo goes to the teller,

you start to survey the line for the cow.

Cow?

There's gonna be a cow up in there?

Stop smoking weed.

Cleo, the cow is just a small vault

on wheels.

They push it from window to window

depending on which teller needs cash.

All right now, if the cow is there,

it'll be open...

...and we'll have at least 50,000.

Look here, let me talk to Black Sam.

Black Sam, she wanna talk to you.

Goddamn.

Sh*t.

How you doing?

So, what you need?

I need a favor.

Yeah, so, what else is new?

Come on, Black Sam.

After all them cars I just stole for you,

before you got into this gun-running sh*t.

You owe me.

Oh, we going there, right?

All right, check it out.

Y'all can roll with that right there.

Man, we ain't robbing stage coaches.

I need something I can set it off with.

Damn, y'all ain't bullshitting, huh?

We want them guns we were shooting.

Y'all can't afford them guns.

That's why it's a favor.

I'll bring them back with interest.

With interest, huh?

Check this:

So hook me up

with your homegirl, Frankie.

Interest, that's it, Sam.

All right, this is what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna let y'all use my sh*t, right,

but if y'all get caught...

I'm already knowing.

- I'm knowing.

- Yeah, all right.

I'm coming back for that Uzi too.

Yo, Bruce, go on and hook them up.

- The right sh*t.

- All right.

Come on, baby.

All right, yeah.

What do we got here? Bullshit.

Bullshit, bullshit.

F***ing bullshit.

Yeah.

Now, that's what I ride to.

Y'all ready?

- Y'all okay?

- Okay.

Okay, wait. Okay, wait a minute.

Let's just wait.

Let's just wait a minute.

Okay, let's just wait. Just for a second.

What's wrong?

I can't do this.

Frankie, she's right.

We didn't case this bank.

We cased Downtown Federal.

They're all pretty much the same.

I ain't feeling this, Frankie.

This ain't right.

Okay.

Everybody get down

on the ground right now!

Put your hands up. Move back, everyone!

- Everybody stay down! Stay down!

- Don't touch that f***ing gun.

Get on the ground.

- Go, go!

- Okay, all right, okay.

Turn around.

All of y'all, turn the f*** around!

- Don't move. Don't move.

- Move back! Move back!

- Okay.

- Turn around, what the f*** you looking at?

- Give me the money, the drawer!

- Put that phone down. Put it down.

Put your arms up. Hey! Hey!

You'd better lay down.

Lay down. Lay down.

Lay down. Don't move.

Y'all just be cool.

Don't move. Don't move.

- Stay there.

- Come on!

What are you looking at?

I'm a b*tch with a gun.

- Two!

- We're taking too much time.

Take the money. Don't try and be a hero.

- All right, here we go.

- Come on!

- Here we go. Yeah.

- All right.

Move it, we're almost to the door.

Almost to the door. Come on, come on.

- Yeah, slow it down, slow it down.

- Got it. Got it.

Yeah.

Whoo! Get up y'all.

Come on, move, move, move.

Now, that's how you work it.

That sh*t was brilliant!

Frankie, we robbed a bank!

Aah! Whoo!

Listen to me, that is a lot of money.

Are we gonna get away with this?

What do you mean are we gonna get

away with this? What does this look like?

Is it ours?

Yes.

- Whoo!

- Sh*t.

Did you lock that door?

And where have you been?

I caught the bus.

Yo, we weren't ready.

- You know we weren't ready.

- Look.

If I didn't set it off, we'd be casing

banks for the next two months.

I had to push y'all!

- It worked, didn't it?

- Ha, ha.

Look, Tisean, it's over.

We got about...

- What?

- About 12 G's.

Twelve thousand dollars in 60 seconds.

Why don't you come over here

and sit down beside me.

Okay? Come on.

Twelve thousand dollars.

- Whoo!

- Aah!

Cleo, sit.

Vehicle stolen here today was ID'd as the

getaway car in that South L.A. bank job.

Oh yeah?

I want prints on all these.

See if anybody shows up.

Yeah, all right. Dust everything.

Frankie.

Cleo.

Moi and T.T.

T.T.? She ain't getting a cut.

Look, Frankie,

I ain't for your sh*t tonight, all right?

- T.T. needs it more than any of us.

- She didn't do anything. She walked out.

Who the f*** cares?

- She was there.

- No, f*** that.

She didn't do nothing,

she ain't getting nothing.

Forget it.

Frankie, I don't want your money.

If you wanna kick my ass,

come on, let's just get it over with...

...because I am sick of your sh*t.

I need that money.

It ain't you I'm mad at.

Damn.

I'm sorry I was tripping.

You my girl.

I need this.

You are so special, Frankie.

Still ain't do sh*t.

Ten-eleven, roger.

Hey, Waller? WALLER: Yeah?

- Anything on Francesca Sutton?

- Who?

The teller suspected of being in collusion

in the Pan Pacific robbery.

Nothing, clean as a whistle.

- Nothing?

- Nothing.

Here, run this again for me.

And in what may be a first

for Los Angeles...

...three women have robbed the branch

at South Los Angeles Bank.

Getting away

with an estimated $90,000 dollars.

Ninety thousand?

Insurance scam.

This is the 25th bank robbery

this year in Los Angeles...

...the bank robbery capital of the nation.

And now on to national news.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Wanna come in for a drink?

- No, thank you.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah.

All right, hold on. Let me get my jacket.

Could've come and pick you up,

you know.

Oh, no, I needed the exercise. Thanks.

- You look great.

- Thanks.

What?

- What?

- Nothing, I just...

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Takashi Bufford

Takashi Bufford was born on August 15, 1952 as Takashi A. Bufford. He is a producer and writer, more…

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