"Support the Girls" is just good enough to make me wish it was better.
Regina Hall shines as the manager of a Hooters-type sports bar. Condescended to by the bar's owner for being a black woman while serving as den mother to the young ladies (some more on the ball than others) who make up the waitress staff, she creates a portrait of a woman who's kept acutely aware of the ways (some major, some minor) in which women and minorities have to deal with a constant flow of disrespect and dismissal.
The film goes off the rails a bit toward the end, when frustrations come to a head and the film lurches awkwardly into female empowerment territory. I didn't have a problem with the message but rather with the clunky execution. It's one of those movies that feels like a man's best guess at what female empowerment feels like rather than the real thing.
Grade: B
Regina Hall shines as the manager of a Hooters-type sports bar. Condescended to by the bar's owner for being a black woman while serving as den mother to the young ladies (some more on the ball than others) who make up the waitress staff, she creates a portrait of a woman who's kept acutely aware of the ways (some major, some minor) in which women and minorities have to deal with a constant flow of disrespect and dismissal.
The film goes off the rails a bit toward the end, when frustrations come to a head and the film lurches awkwardly into female empowerment territory. I didn't have a problem with the message but rather with the clunky execution. It's one of those movies that feels like a man's best guess at what female empowerment feels like rather than the real thing.
Grade: B