The Players Club is a film that came in 1998. It falls within the American black comedy drama-thriller and it surely packs a lot of things to back this very long titled genre. It was the directorial debut of Ice Cube, the American rapper who made his music career with Straight Outta Compton in 1988. The Players Club is notorious amongst the reviewers where it did not receive much praise. There are some things it does right and maybe many wrongs, at least politically or morally speaking, and perhaps from an artistic point of view too, but sometimes the film exists just for fun, and possibly it could prove to be just that one for you, nothing less and nothing more.
Synopsis
The synopsis tells us that a single mother is working hard because she has to manage her expenses which are becoming extremely hard for her to take care of. She wants to be a journalist. However, to pay for the education, she decides to work as an exotic dancer at a shady dance club. Her name is Diana, and at her previous working place, she meets two strippers. They advise her to work at their place, the two are named Tricks and Ronnie. Diana accepts and lets her cousin into the club too. However, later she finds out that due to bad influence and persuaded by Tricks (she bribes her) her cousin has started the visiting houses of the customers. Diana gets almost raped one day and the tragedy only extends further when she finds out her cousin is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend.
After kicking her cousin out of her house, she meets Blue. Blue is a DJ at the club and starts to have a relationship with her. On another black night, Diana gets a call from her cousin who asks her to pick her up from a party. But after Diana refuses to do so, she gets raped. This leads to a story of revenge of sorts where Diana must deal with Tricks.
Cast and crew
The director as previously mentioned is our rapper Ice Cube. Other stars include Bernie Mac (Guess Who), Monica Calhoun (The Best Man Holiday), A.J. Johnson, Ice Cube, and Alex Thomas. Additionally, Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Adele Givens, Dick Anthony Williams, Tiny Lister, and John Amos are also there.
Rating and Review
On IMDb, the movie has received a mediocre rating of 5.7 out of 10. On Rotten Tomatoes it is even a worse at 31% approval rating. Watch a trailer may be! Or just explore the cast if that is what you may be interested in. However, comedy movies seldom receive good ratings. It’s always on the viewer’s perspective how they would end up enjoying or rejecting it.
Where to watch it?
This one is really hard to find overall on the internet. One can only watch by it renting it on Amazon or Vudu, the popular ones out there. Rest is luck and deep research. However, the Players Club is slowly fading away from the memories. It is in dire need of viewers. Make sure to lend a view eh!
