Set It Off Page #6

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
12,626 Views


It's not worth it.

Money you can replace easy.

Friends, real friends, you can't.

Don't sweat it.

You have the answer to everything,

don't you?

No, I wouldn't say that.

I'm just sharing my experience with you.

Who do you think you are?

I'll be your genie if you let me.

Your every wish is my command.

Cleo, you know you was wrong

for what you did to Stony.

F*** her.

F*** Stony.

- We'll do this without her.

- Now, wait a minute.

Now, suppose Stony put a gun in your face,

what would you do?

I would've slapped you too.

Oh, come on now,

you know I wasn't gonna shoot her.

You know how I get when I'm faded.

You still was wrong.

So T.T., what's my girl gonna do?

Girl, you gotta step to that judge

and prove you got some coins in the bank.

I ain't doing nothing without Stony.

Stony!

- I don't wanna give that ho no ride.

- Stop acting like a baby.

Bingo.

Come to me, baby.

Oh, yeah, grand theft auto.

I love to see it.

- Hey, Waller?

- Yeah.

Tell me something.

- Yeah.

- Did I or did I not say...

...all these women run together?

Hmm.

Do you feel me?

I thought that you would.

Work with me, baby.

Look, I'm sorry.

You're sorry.

Let's just put it all behind us.

Come on.

We've been through worse.

Apology accepted.

But you know

you need to come back in with us.

You ain't got enough money

to get out of town.

You're right about that.

But I want more than that.

I mean, is this the only way?

See, I wanna be somebody

who doesn't have to do this crap.

You know what I'm saying?

Stony, you can go to suburbia

and start a new life.

But we ain't nothing but hood rats.

Now, I can live with that, you can't.

The hood is where I belong.

I mean, what am I gonna do in Hollywood?

Or Thousand Oaks or some sh*t?

Man, sh*t.

Why we gotta roll over

and accept that though?

We gotta have a plan.

What does our future look like?

Where do you see yourself

five years from now?

I don't know.

And I don't care.

But I ain't thinking

about five years from now.

I'm just trying to get through the day.

What the hell?

Cleo, I know you didn't come to work...

...ain't been to work

and don't call nobody.

I'm broke, Luther.

I know you gonna give me my job back...

...because nobody take sh*t

the way I take sh*t.

Now, shut up before I stick

that mop up your ass, Luther.

You better save that

for your little girlfriend.

Well, get to work...

...ladies and gentleman.

There's been a rift in this family...

...and that is not good for business.

See, we wanna play it like it was.

Back to work, see?

If only Tisean and Stony

will come rob the bank with us.

We started as a gang of four.

We must always be four.

Don Stony from the Bronx.

What is your opinion?

Should we rob the bank?

The only way I can return to this family...

...if we do this one more time...

...we do it right.

We get enough money

to get us up out of here for good.

T.T., you agree?

Cleomenza.

No more funny looking underwear

for your little girlfriend.

Cleomenza, no more...

...fancy cars.

Shopping sprees.

Cleomenza.

Can you respect our conditions?

Can you live with the terms

that your dons have set forth?

Yes, Godfather.

Tisean Scullino from Detroit,

are you cool with all of this?

I am.

And you...

...Don Stony from the Bronx.

Can you accept your godfather's terms?

All right then. We're back in effect.

Next stop, Balboa Savings and Loan.

Whoa, right down there. Okay.

Yeah.

Think you can do that?

Hurry up.

You got it?

Come on, Cleo, what are you doing?

- Hey, pass me a tape.

- No, let's go.

Come on, I ain't going nowhere

till you pass me a tape.

Take that sh*t and let's go.

Ooh, yeah, it'll work.

Can you help me out?

- Please don't...

- Come on, lady.

- I've been out here all night.

- Sir.

I'm sorry.

Come on,

just a couple of bucks or something.

- I'm sorry, ma'am.

- Come on.

- Sir, please. WOMAN: Thank you.

- Stop, you're annoying our customers.

- Come on, man.

- I'm not hurting anybody.

- You are annoying our customers.

Now, I'd like you to move down the street

and leave our people alone.

- I've been asked to come out here...

- Come on, man, I'm not hurting anybody.

- Look...

- No, I'm not. No, I'm not.

- What's your problem?

- F***, lay on the ground.

I didn't do anything.

Everybody get the f*** down right now!

Move it! You, down.

Hands up and move back away

from the drawer.

That's right. You, move back. Get down!

Open the drawer and you fill it up.

Let's go.

- Did you hear what I said?

- Give it up!

- That's right.

- Back up, back up, back up.

- You, up, let's go.

- Hey, down, that's right.

Oh, please.

Oh, please, mama.

- Oh, please.

- B*tch, would you shut the f*** up?

Nobody move!

- What's going on?

- Talking...

Talking to the lady,

I'm not bothering anybody.

- Come on.

- Listen.

What's happening?

A minute and a half!

- Get your money. Don't be a hero. Let's go!

- Okay. Okay.

- You, open up the cow.

- Everybody, do what I say.

Some backup over here. We got

a vagrant that's drunk and disorderly.

Uh, would you send another unit?

Come on, let's make it! Move it!

- Let's make it, come on!

- Cover me!

Don't make me get ugly up in here,

ladies and gentlemen. Not today.

Don't look at me. Turn around.

- Hey, you keep your hands down.

- Let's go.

Everybody, face down, face down.

Let's go, let's go.

Keep him in line, girl.

Keep him in line. Down.

Hey, come on, let's make it!

Don't do it. Do not...

Where's Cleo?

Hey, come on, get in.

Sh*t.

Come on. Let's go.

Come on, come on, come on.

- Yes.

- Come on, let's go. Goddamn it.

You are crazy, damn it.

- Come on, let's go!

- Move it.

Move!

Yeah! Yeah!

We did that sh*t!

Wow.

The way you busted through that wall!

We did it! We did it!

I thought it was over

with the cops outside the bank.

Where was you going?

I don't know.

I was coming to get y'all asses.

Now, what about T.T.?

The way she got the drop on the cop.

You think of anything else,

you give us a call today.

- This the girls?

- Took off in the Suburban.

Apparently the getaway car was blocked.

It's still out there.

Car theft report's

from near the 21st Street garage.

They're getting in way over their heads,

aren't they?

They don't f***ing know it.

Man, counting money is harder

than working for Luther.

I'm getting dizzy up here.

Two hundred and ninety-six thousand,

Stony, and counting. Whoo!

- So, what's that?

- Seventy five thousand a piece.

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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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