BAPS (1997)
Waitresses at a Georgia restaurant, Nisi and Mickey, decide to fly to Los Angeles for a music-video audition in order to raise money for their dream project, instead they scam a dying millionaire but eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
8 March 1962, New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1954, Tuba City, Arizona, USA
20 June 1928, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 May 1967, Mandeville, Jamaica
26 April 1962, South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
5 October 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 March 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
1959, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 January 1968, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA
22 September 1946, Panorama City, California, USA
13 May 1961, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
21 September 1953, USA
22 September 1970, Highland Park, Illinois, USA
17 March 1927, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
1 October 1955, Akron, Ohio, USA
7 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
15 June 1969, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
June 24, 2003
Not a great example of Halle Berry's talent.
April 26, 2006
Formulaic and distastefully fake, Townsend's modern fairy tale unsuccessfuly tries to combine the premise of Pretty Woman with the formats of the fish-out-of-water and culture-collision.
January 01, 2000
They both do good work, but it's Desselle who steals the film and grabs the major laughs.
November 27, 2002
Apallingly bad. Robert Townsend's attempt at satirizing black culture is far off the mark.
July 21, 2009
A string of hugely unfunny shenanigans ensue.
July 21, 2009
t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them.
January 26, 2006
You can see how the black, modern-day Pygmalion-type story could work, just, but not with this heap of cabbage leaves for a script, and not with such desperately goofy acting from Berry and Desselle.
April 09, 2005
The story offers nothing original.
January 01, 2000
A horribly failed satire that should be avoided by all.
January 01, 2000
Paying movie-goers deserve more, especially from someone who has previously shown signs of genuine comic aptitude.
June 05, 2002
Bad, amateur, poor and silly.
January 01, 2000
It's good for a half-hour of humor before the fun starts to dissolve.
