Set It Off

About Set It Off

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.

F. Gary Gray's Set It Off is a 1996 crime romance film. Released in November 1996, it runs 123 minutes.

Its themes are hopeful, complex, angry, and cautionary.

Jada Pinkett Smith stars as Stony, Queen Latifah as Cleo, Vivica A. Fox as Frankie, and Kimberly Elise as Tisean. The screenplay is by Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford. It streams on Starz Apple TV channel in the United States.

Chappaquiddick, The Color Purple, and What's Love Got to Do with It make useful companions to Set It Off, all filed under incredulous. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 412 votes and it carries a R rating.