The Players Club (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 08 Apr 1998
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119905/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_players_club
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Runtime: 104 min
• Writer: Ice Cube
• Director: Ice Cube
• Cast: LisaRaye McCoy, Dick Anthony Williams, Judyann Elder
• Keywords: dominatrix, stripper, strip club, single mother, cat fight,

5.8/10

The Players Club Storyline

Diana, a young, unwed mother struggles to make enough money to pay for her college education. Diana ends up working at a shoe store, when she meets Ronnie and Tricks, two evil strippers that work at a sassy strip club. Tricks tells Diana that she should “use what God gave her” and make some fast money. Diana goes to the hip and saucy “The Players Club”. Dollar Bill, the owner of the club allows Diana to work and gives her the name……Diamond. Diamond’s cousin, Ebony wants to work at the Players Club and gets caught up in the fast life. One night, when Diamond comes home, an obsessed fan attacks her. Diamond runs in and finds her boyfriend and Ebony in bed together. Diamond kicks her out and breaks up with her boyfriend. Ebony has been gone alot and Diamond finds out that Ebony has been doing “other” things than stripping. Ronnie makes Ebony go to Ronnie’s brother’s bachelor party. Ebony is raped and left to die. Diamond and Blue find her and call the cops. Diamond goes to The Players Club and confronts Ronnie. The two women end up getting into a catfight. Hair-pulling, name-calling, punch-throwing, these girls are going for blood.—Diamond

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The Players Club Movie Reviews

“Make the money…Don’t let it make you”

“An Ice Cube film”…Wow, that’s already big enough. Not that Ice Cube is the biggest celebrity of the planet, but he is an actor I appreciate; too much. He is honest, simple; pure. He is a rapper, a musician who writes songs for films, and is good at it, besides being a low profile artist. Plus, he is a very good actor who does what he pleases and likes to and never disappoints. With the production company he has, he could have the highest ego, but he continues on doing his job.

In 1998, he got his chance to direct his movie; his first and only up to date. He wouldn’t do the stupid gangster films the other rappers do because he takes the job seriously; so seriously he wrote his own neighborhood and people story, which is unexpectedly touching in its most impressive moments. He had done that type of film before, with independent man John Singleton, among others in that film I regret not seeing yet, “Boyz N’ the Hood”. Whether he got inspiration from there or not, I don’t care, but the screenplay is his.

In his tale, where he also allows a role for him, we meet Diana (a powerful and gripping performance by Lisa Raye), a young girl and aspiring journalist with a lot of problems that drive her towards working on a strippers club, to get money and become Diamond. In Dollar Bill’s (original Bernie Mac) club, “The players club”, she is not the typical stripper, dancing with all the others; she has a special number, and some clients. Every day she deals with cousin Ebony (Monica Calhoun), who lives with her and has more than two times her problems; her unfaithful boyfriend and the different people in the club, including DJ Blue (a calm portrayal by Jamie Foxx), who likes her.

Like in any other story, these are not the only ones in Cube’s vision…There are lots of them and each of them has their own thing that relates to another thing. However, Cube always keeps the story focused in its center point. His gift as a director (because he could have sucked) comes with the importance he gives to the camera. He has a desperate need to show things as real as possible, even if it is a fiction story, so his camera moves like eyes most of the times, like afraid of watching what’s waiting on the other side, so the impact is harder when we seed alongside the camera. It is a very effective technique.

What is also captivating and remarkable, is how much of him we can see in the film. Like directors of the league of Scorsese or Oliver Stone, Ice Cube tries to makes us see what he sees. There are a few scenes with enormous violence; glasses that break, shootings, people hurt…We feel it, and it is hard to watch. I was thinking about Spike Lee, and how personal his movies are. I was shocked with the ending of “Do the right thing”, but I understood it was just Spike Lee expressing himself.

I don’t know what exactly the message Lee wanted to give was, I don’t know what was going through his mind at the time, just as I didn’t know what was Ice Cube thinking, so he could end up showing “The players club” in flames during the first frames of his movie.

Fair B movie

Fair B quality movie depicting slice of black American strip club life in southern USA.Story is good social commentary on said lifestyle’s evils and dangers but the movie suffers from a rushed directorial style and lackluster performances even by pro actors who have displayed better in the past.This was probabably caused by lack of directorial discipline on Ice Cube’s part due to budget constraints.You can realy tell the veteran actors were not paid properly and just cruised along as a favor for Cube.Too bad for the movie’s story was a good idea,setting up for great drama,action,comedy,sex,social commentary and entertainment much like the winning formula of SHOWGIRLS.I vote for a proper remake of this one!But as of now,avoid this movie unless you really want a peek into that lifestyle or are a big fan of any of the lead actors.Do not expect much sex scenes though for the focus on this one is social commentary……

Far better than I expected

I had pretty low expectations for “The Players Club”. It was directed by Ice Cube, who I never knew had been behind the camera, and it’s the only movie he ever made, suggesting that it wasn’t particularly successful.

My expectations were well and truly surpassed. “The Players Club” does get off to a rough start. It has a generally amateurish feel to the shots and edits, or perhaps just a low budget feel. Also the pacing seems strange – quite a lot seems to happen very quickly, and I felt the need to come up for breath.

But I persevered. There’s just so much to like about “The Players Club”. It’s got a great ensemble cast, many entertaining characters, and quite a few unexpected twists and turns.

I say check it out.