Girls Trip (2017)

Release date: 2017-07-21
Country: USA|Canada
Language: English
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Production Co: Perfect World Pictures, Universal Pictures, Will Packer Productions
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rating: 6.2/10
Length: 2h 2min

Storyline

Four best friends, the "Flossy Posse", have grown distant over the years. When lifestyle guru Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall), who is dubbed "the next Oprah", is offered an opportunity to be the keynote speaker at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, she decides to bring along her friends to turn her work vacation into a girls' trip. Joining Ryan is Sasha (Queen Latifah), an ex-journalist from Time magazine who now owns a floundering gossip site and is struggling financially; Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith), a nurse and uptight mom who has not had a boyfriend since her divorce years earlier; and Dina (Tiffany Haddish), a happy-go-lucky, impulsive party animal who was fired after assaulting a coworker shortly before the trip. While on the trip, Sasha is sent a tip that shows a picture of a black man's head kissing an Instagram model, presumed to be Ryan's husband Stewart. The friends are reluctant to tell Ryan, but when Dina spills the news, Ryan shocks them by telling them she is already ...

Plot Keywords

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Short Review

...the bond between the four women - and occasional lack thereof - demands repeat viewing much more than the sporadic shocks of gross-out (and grapefruit) humor.