Pic lacks a consistent tone, running the gamut from broad comedy to cautionary drama, with a few jarring transitions along the way. Here, he has cobbled together an episodic and unevenly paced comedic drama that makes up in vigor what it lacks in polish. Not surprisingly, this leads to trouble.įor Ice Cube, “The Players Club” is the latest addition to a resume that already includes numerous acting gigs, exec producing (“Dangerous Ground,” in which he also starred) and co-screenwriting (“Friday”). And when Ebony (Monica Calhoun), Diana’s naive young cousin, also gets a job at the club, Ronnie tries to tempt the fresh-faced innocent into joining her for lucrative after-hours activities. (Or, as they say at the Players Club, she isn’t a “ho.”) But Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson), one of her more flamboyant co-workers, is not so fastidious about making a quick buck. Time and again, the movie emphasizes that, even though she doffs her clothes and performs the occasional table dance, Diana is most assuredly not a prostitute. Presumably, such employment is far less humiliating than dealing with her college’s student-loan office.
To pay for her college tuition, she lands a job as a stripper at the Players Club, a rowdy joint operated by a grandiloquent hustler named Dollar Bill (Bernie Mac).
Making his feature directorial debut from his own screenplay, Ice Cube focuses on Diana (LisaRaye), a lovely African-American single mother who dreams of becoming a broadcast journalist.
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