Movie Clip Monday: The Player's Club

Its been a few weeks since I did my part in sharing movie clips on these innanets. I hope I can make it up to you with the movie that features all things ratchet about black owned and operated strip clubs.

I urge you to think twice before you get pompous like you've never been to a strip club and start judging me for featuring this movie on my blog. This movie introduced the world to the ideology that beautiful women work in strip clubs as a means to pay their college tuition.

Written and Directed by Ice Cube, The Players Club is a movie about a woman who battles against rival strippers and her money laundering boss in her efforts to make a legitimate living and build a better life for her son. Lisa Ray stars as the protagonist Diana Armstrong who has aspirations of becoming a famous journalist but got caught up in the dangers of working in a gentleman's club.
Part 1.

Diamond meets two dancers, Ronnie and Trixxie, while working as a salesclerk at a shoe store. They convince her to join them at The Player's Club as a skrippa and the club's owner, Dolla Bill (Bernie Mac) gives her the stage name "Diamond."


Part 2.

Everything is fine until four years into the game her cousin Ebony (Monica Calhoun) comes to live with her. After listening to Dolla's rendition of "The Strippin' Game", she starts working at the club.


Part 3. 

Diamond has become one of the club's hottest and most popular dancers. She has come into her own as a dancer and is starting to find her own way. 


Part 4. 

Dolla Bill gets picked up by the loan shark he has failed to pay back. We finally get to see Ronnie and Trixxie doing what they do best, skripping. Too bad Trix isn't a crowd favorite. Ronnie convinces Ebony to dance at her brother Junior's bachelor party. 


Part 5. 

Through Trixxie, Ebony finds a new way to make money on the side by doing private parties. 


Part 6. 

Diamond's boyfriend breaks up with her because she works at the club and her cousin Ebony dangerously spirals out of control. One night, famous strip club connoisseur Uncle Luke of Two Live Crew fame visits the club. 


Fast forward to the good part...


Part 10. 

The movie ends on a high note as Diana grows tired of the stripping game and gets into a fistfight with another stripper named Ronnie. A year passes afterward and Diana has moved on with her life. She's gotten Ebony a job working at a shoe store. She continues to date the club DJ, and has become a successful news anchor.


Shout out to Glades Central's Class of 2004 because we loved this movie in high school! <---just told my age *shrug* 


Lisa Raye, the self-proclaimed platinum (not gold) digger is now co-starring in the hit VH1 series Single Ladies which airs on Monday nights at 9pm.