Support the Girls
The filmmaker behind art comedies Computer Chess and Results follows the tight-knit staff at boob-oriented bar/restaurant Double Whammies in this comedic drama that won critical praise, including a spot on Barack Obama's best of 2018 list.
"Lisa (Regina Hall) is the general manager at Double Whammies, a dodgy sports bar where the waitresses must dress in revealing clothing, and deal with the leering clientele. Despite the circumstances, Lisa loves her staff and the customers and has an infectious optimism. She is also fiercely protective of her employees, helping them deal with absent babysitters, money problems and abusive boyfriends. The film takes in one particularly awful day that cruelly tests Lisa’s optimism." (Sydney Film Festival)
- Director:
- Andrew Bujalski ('Results', 'Computer Chess')
- Writer:
- Andrew Bujalski
- Cast:
- Regina HallHaley Lu RichardsonShayna McHayleDylan GelulaBrooklyn DeckerAJ MichalkaJames Le GrosJana Kramer
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Amanda Jane Robinson
flicksA stirring, bittersweet depiction of solidarity between working women and a nuanced collection of vignettes that perfectly captures the exhaustion and mundanity of everyday capitalism.
Variety
pressHall’s performance — tender, tough, empathetic, controlled — crumples from tears to laughter in a blink. It’s phenomenal.
The New Yorker
pressThe sharp-elbowed humour is laced with aching tenderness, tightrope-tense frustrations over money and love, and an underlying mix of social pathologies that bubbles through the show-biz surfaces...
The Guardian
pressSupport the Girls is a shrewdly observed, day-in-the-life-style portrait of a woman under pressure.
Stuff
press[Regina Hall] does fine job of holding the film together but, elsewhere, the story seems to waste talents like Haley Lu Richardson.
Rolling Stone
pressYou could not ask for a better image of our country right now. You could not ask for a better American film to showcase it.
Little White Lies
pressA neorealist take on our capitalist times, reaffirming the essential need for camaraderie every day of the working week.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn easygoing hangout film that will ring true for anyone who has worked in the service industry...
Empire Magazine
pressA scrappy but soulful delight. Regina Hall brings everything to this nuanced and loving portrait of working women whose stories seldom make their way into the foreground of film.
Flicks, Amanda Jane Robinson
flicksA stirring, bittersweet depiction of solidarity between working women and a nuanced collection of vignettes that perfectly captures the exhaustion and mundanity of everyday capitalism.
Variety
pressHall’s performance — tender, tough, empathetic, controlled — crumples from tears to laughter in a blink. It’s phenomenal.
The New Yorker
pressThe sharp-elbowed humour is laced with aching tenderness, tightrope-tense frustrations over money and love, and an underlying mix of social pathologies that bubbles through the show-biz surfaces...
The Guardian
pressSupport the Girls is a shrewdly observed, day-in-the-life-style portrait of a woman under pressure.
Stuff
press[Regina Hall] does fine job of holding the film together but, elsewhere, the story seems to waste talents like Haley Lu Richardson.
Rolling Stone
pressYou could not ask for a better image of our country right now. You could not ask for a better American film to showcase it.
Little White Lies
pressA neorealist take on our capitalist times, reaffirming the essential need for camaraderie every day of the working week.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn easygoing hangout film that will ring true for anyone who has worked in the service industry...
Empire Magazine
pressA scrappy but soulful delight. Regina Hall brings everything to this nuanced and loving portrait of working women whose stories seldom make their way into the foreground of film.
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