![]() The film does a great job of thinking twice about getting into a profession that can cause trauma and stereotypes of the woman of color face when dealing with the work of a stripper. The film is also a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of stripping and how any young woman of any race can fall victim to the pressures of stardom and fame at a high cost. Adele Givens is cold and ruthless in a very effective way as Diamond's nemeses. Bernie Mac is very lively and funny as the owner. You have great empathy for her and the situations with her profession being a mom and the men in her life, especially the cousin. Dive into the heart of this movie through its stars. Explore detailed bios, filmographies, and the creative teams insights. I think Lisa Raye is outstanding as Diamond. Meet the talented cast and crew behind The Players Club on Moviefone. ![]() This was said at least twice in the movie. Diamond beats the shit out of Ronnie because Ronnie can’t fight. Pretty girls can fight like a muhfucka especially in St.Louis and New York. In cases like this you always bet on the pretty girl to win the fight. ![]() Furthermore, Ronnie has been seducing Diamond, trying to have a sexual tryst with her. However, Ronnie and Tricks lure Ebony into part-time work as a prostitute. Diamond’s young and naive cousin Ebony (Monica Calhoun) comes to work at the club, and Diamond looks after her. Diamond gave her cousin, Ebony, some really good advice. Ronnie runs back to The Player’s Club like shit ain’t happened and Diamond finds her and wants the fade. The only person Diamond trusts is the deejay named Blue (Jamie Foxx). 2 Live Crew make an appearance as themselves and perform without being offensive for a change. That little bit of information persuaded Ronnie to go outside with Clyde, leaving Ebony alone at the party. There is an excellent catfight between Diamond and Tricks that is very funny and suspenseful in the stripper's dressing room. Several scenes that work are the ones between Bernie Mac and his chided assistant Lil’ Man (Anthony Johnson), who has to go through as the whipping boy for all the things that go wrong with Bill’s creditors. The Players Club script by Ice Cube is hilarious and insightful in the daily struggles of a young black woman trying to make a better life for herself and her family. Diamond also goes to school to earn her degree and struggles to stay alert in class as her professor and friends try to motivate her to hang in there, juggling school, a night-time job, and being a mother. Unfortunately, Ronnie gets a lot of bad advice from another stripper, Tricks (Adele Givens), which leads to situations that threatened Ronnie's relationship with her cousin Diamond. Diamond helps her get a job as a stripper there at The Players Club. Diamond's cousin Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) is also down on her luck and moves in with Diamond and her boyfriend. Diamond likes Blue, whom she loves but is not as ambitious career wise as Diamond. ![]() In an early role, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is the DJ who takes a liking to Diamond and tries to ask her out. Bernie Mac is the owner of the strip club named Dollar Bill, who has mounting debt to pay off with his gangster pals. After a fight with her parents and their disapproval of dating a guy that is not worthy of her love, Diamond moves out, gets her place, and from advice from a friend, agrees to strip at the local strip club to pay her rent, school tuition, and to take care of her young son. That is the dilemma of the character Diamond (Lisa Raye) encounters. The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Ice Cube, and stars LisaRaye McCoy, Bernie Mac, Jamie Foxx, Monica Calhoun, and Cube himself. However, with paying student loan debt and the high cost of college tuition, some women go to desperate means to make their dreams come proper career-wise. The Player's Club is one of the better films in which the main character earns empathy because she wants to make a better life for herself and continue her education. Villainous Breakdown: Constantly has those in the most pathetic way.Stripper movies usually about sexy bodies with a dumb story and dialogue.Mean Boss: Doesn’t even begin to describe him.Large Ham: He's excessively over-the-top in his speech and mannerisms.Jive Turkey: Even compared to the other characters.Harmless Villain: Even though his cowardice leaves him willing to let others be hurt or killed if it'll spare his own life, he's in no way a violent person himself.Dirty Coward: He talks tough to his employees and people who can’t afford to talk back or risk being fired but when confronted by St Louis’s men? He completely shuts down like a deer in the headlights and at the end when St Louis himself enters the club to take care of him? He endangers the lives of his strippers and customers to save his own ass.The Players' Club manager, Dollar Bill is a cowardly buffoon who is constantly in debt and despised by his customers, his employees, the local crime boss and the police.
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