B.A.P.S

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B.A.P.S

PG-13,

1997,

1h 31m,

Comedy

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5,000+ Ratings

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Waitresses at a Georgia restaurant, Nisi and Mickey, decide to fly to Los Angeles for a music-video audition in order to raise money for their dream project, a business that combines soul-food dining with a hair salon. Circumstances eventually find the Southern ladies on the estate of Mr. Blakemore, an elderly millionaire. Despite their vast cultural differences, Nisi and Mickey form close bonds with Blakemore and his butler.

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Anne Cohen

Refinery29

Jul 31, 2018

The fact that the film has had such a lasting impact,... proves that the film spoke to its audience.

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Jul 21, 2009

t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.

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Emanuel Levy

Variety

Apr 26, 2006

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Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.

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Jul 21, 2009

A string of hugely unfunny shenanigans ensue.

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Oct 15, 2018

It seems the SJW trolls are all over these reviews. As for the "racist clothing" Halle wears, I though these girls were sexy. Walter mathau's character probably didn't want his rich white SJW nephew spending all his money on pot, a master's in philosophy, and lawyers to get out of jail from rioting (I mean protesting) ruining their good name. The plot was short and cute. Two broke girls with big dreams find out what people with too much money blow money on. They make the audience think they are so ghetto that they would take the money and run, but we learn they consider the old man family (which drives SJWs crazy because it challenges their closed mindedness, and it doesn't fit the racist stereotype they are looking for to trigger them). It also ends with a great moral "it doesn't matter who you are, if you are a good person then good things will happen to you"

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Jan 29, 2018

Lol love this movie.... stop being up tight....FUBU...I remember watching this at sleepovers... my 80s baby know what I'm talking about....

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Robert Townsend

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Halle Berry

Nisi

Martin Landau

Mr. Donald Blakemore

Ian Richardson

Manley

Natalie Desselle-Reid

Mickey

Troy Byer

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Waitresses at a Georgia restaurant, Nisi and Mickey, decide to fly to Los Angeles for a music-video audition in order to raise money for their dream project, a business that combines soul-food dining with a hair salon. Circumstances eventually find the Southern ladies on the estate of Mr. Blakemore, an elderly millionaire. Despite their vast cultural differences, Nisi and Mickey form close bonds with Blakemore and his butler.

Director: Robert Townsend
Producer: Mark Burg, Loretha Jones
Screenwriter: Troy Byer
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Island Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 1997, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.2M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Surround

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