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Support the Girls
Lisa Conroy may not love managing the restaurant Double Whammies, but she loves her employees more than anything, not only Danyelle, and Maci, her closest friends, but also her extended family. Unfortunately, the cheap, curmudgeonly owner Ben Cubby doesn’t care nearly as much, and confronts Lisa when he learns that she’s using the restaurant to raise money for Shaina, an employee in legal trouble related to an abusive boyfriend. To get even, the girls decide to sabotage the restaurant on the night of a major mixed martial arts fight.
4 February 1991, Austin, Texas, USA
25 April 1985, Fredericksburg, Texas, USA
23 May 1958, Belleville, Illinois, USA
17 June 1984, Oxford, England, UK
August 25, 2018
"Crushing" is a good word at large for Support the Girls' approach to work, which as Bujalski sees it is equally tedious and necessary.August 24, 2018
This chicken-wing emporium becomes a handy metaphor for women making their way through the patriarchy in writer-director Andrew Bujalski's observant and trenchantly funny new film.August 24, 2018
It's a celebration of sisterhood...This movie is so understated that this theme sneaks up on you in ways that are quietly powerful.August 26, 2018
Like the joint at its center, the movie is somewhat untidy and rough around the edges, but Bujalski's affection for the characters comes through.August 27, 2018
As much as this is a film about work, it is also, quite frankly, a film about the ways men unknowingly, without even really trying, make women's lives harder.August 27, 2018
Bujalski has created something beautiful with bare-bones humility, humor and humanism.August 24, 2018
You could not ask for a better image of our country right now. You could not ask for a better American film to showcase it.August 27, 2018
It's easily one of the most humanistic and funny comedies of the summer, with a career best performance by Regina Hall.August 24, 2018
Regina Hall so fully inhabits Lisa's life we hardly feel apart from her, tugged by the same frustrations, goodwill, minor satisfactions and disappointments.August 24, 2018
The unlikely, bittersweet, bristling comedy Support the Girls is easily one of the best films of the year, and the most sympathetic to women.August 24, 2018
Support the Girls somehow manages to do it all, and in the form of a breezy, heartwarming workplace comedy to boot. There won't be another film like it this year.August 28, 2018
It's sweet, but not syrupy; it's truthful, but not cynical. It's a breath of fresh air, accessible, and a real gem of American independent filmmaking...