Cube even casts himself as one of the film’s unsavory characters. But there’s also a lot of grim, unsettling stuff, much of it involving Diamond’s seemingly naive cousin Ebony (Monica Calhoun). Such casting may lead you to believe that “Players Club” is a laugh riot. Johnson as Dollar’s put-upon sidekick and Adele Givens as a dancer with so much mileage on her that the club empties as soon as she swaggers onstage. Also like “Friday,” the movie is heavily populated with an all-star lineup of comics, including Jamie Foxx as the club’s caustic disc jockey Bernie Mac as Dollar Bill, the club’s slime-ball owner A.J. Adopting the stage name, 'Diamond,' Diana learns the tricks of the trade from Ronnie (CHRYSTALE. Needing to make ends meet, she decides to take a job as a stripper at The Players Club, a notorious strip joint run by a two-bit hustler named Dollar Bill (BERNIE MAC). They’re such strong presences they make you wonder what they’d be like dueling in a courtroom instead of a dressing room.Īs was the case with 1995’s “Friday,” for which Cube wrote the script, “Players Club” is loosely constructed with anecdotes flowing into each other with the ambling, hit-and-miss rhythm of a comedy routine. Diana Armstrong (LISA RAYE) is a single mom and aspiring broadcast journalist. Diamond: after Ronnie falls to the ground on her side, Diamond kicks Ronnie in the stomach That was for me. Dollar Bill: Now git out my face, before you git swole. Fox in “Independence Day,” Lela Rochon in “Gang Related” and now a whole club filled with such dynamos as Diamond and Ronnie, the club’s star dancer, played with malevolent gusto by another rookie film actor, Chrystale Wilson. The Players Club (1998) - Dollar Bill: Blue, if have to raise out this chair gon be trouble, trouble Blue: Dollar, I aint tryin to.
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