For once, things are looking up for Dreux.
She’s spent long hours as a waitress in Los Angeles, but a new job opportunity seems like it falls right into her skillset. And with the interview later that day, it won’t be long before she’s climbing up the rungs into the higher-paying corporate side of food management.
But that’s the same day that her landlord, Uche, bangs on the apartment door. He’s demanding $1500 in rent. And if he doesn’t get it in the next nine hours, he’s kicking her to the curb.
The threat confuses Dreux, since she’s pretty sure her roommate and best friend, Alyssa, said that she already gave the rent money to Uche.
Well, that wasn’t entirely true. She gave the money to her live-in boyfriend, Lolo, who claimed he gave it to Uche. In reality, he spent it as an “investment” in his entrepreneurial T-shirt line.
With the clock ticking down, Dreux and Alyssa don’t have long to figure out how to earn the $1,500.
But they’ve got a whole city’s worth of places to start looking.
Dreux and Alyssa stick together through many issues. And though something threatens to tear them apart, they eventually reconcile. At one point, Dreux risks losing an important opportunity to help Alyssa when she gets into trouble. And their community helps them set up an event that may save the day.
A man stands in front of a predatory loan company, warning people of its entrapping contracts.
Someone briefly talks about how he overcome his unsavory past.
Alyssa references many spiritual things, though she has no identifiable religious affiliation. She talks about the benefits of praying to God to heal lactose intolerance (after the fact), and she prays that she’d meet a rich man on Tinder.
Alyssa hangs crystals from her car mirror; she talks about praying to her ancestors; she claims that the “Universe” is going to help and guide them. Alyssa attempts to channel information about someone’s phone password out of thin air. And when someone earnestly attempts to warn her about a scam, she yells, “Evil spirit be gone!”
We hear a reference to manifesting one’s desires. Alyssa says she’d like to be a ghost, because she couldn’t “do” the afterlife full-time. There’s a reference to karma. When Alyssa sees a bunch of candles, she says someone “just summoned, like, 30 demons.”
One person exclaims, “Lead us to the Promised Land!” People wonder why the “church crowd” (defined as those who go out to eat after church) are some of the rudest customers—“especially the Baptists.” A woman says that her relative “looks like Tyler Perry and loves the Lord like him, too.”
One scene focuses on a prominent bulge in a man’s underwear; Dreux and Alyssa talk about it afterwards. Another scene focuses on a woman as she shakes her half-exposed rear for the camera. She later shakes it for a man, and the two passionately lick the same ice cream cone at the same time. A woman’s nipples are visible beneath a thin shirt, and her cleavage is pronounced. A shirt reveals a woman’s bra. People wear shirts that expose their midriff. Someone tells a woman to cover up, since her “lady bits are showing.”
Dreux talks with another woman about her crush. The other woman makes innuendo-filled statements about the lewd things she’d allow the man to do her. And when he attempts to purchase Honey Buns snacks, Dreux mistakenly thinks he’s talking about her body. Alyssa tells Dreux that she’ll need to stick out her rear and act sexy in order to attract the man, prompting Dreux to moan after each bite of her food.
A man cheats on his girlfriend. Someone mentions a certain sex position. We see Alyssa after a sexual encounter, and she describes it in detail. A woman admits that she used to be a stripper, and we’re later told that she returned to doing it, too.
Dreux and Alyssa briefly pretend to be lesbians, hoping that it’ll help get a loan officer to provide them with some money.
Dreux gives blood to make some money. However, when the IV gets ripped from her arm, the blood from the bag sprays all over the room, covering everyone in ample amounts of the red stuff.
Someone gets electrocuted, falling off a telephone pole and onto another person below. A gang member fires a gun at people, hoping to kill them. We also see a man drop another person from the top of a parking garage, though the scene cuts away before the person starts falling. A building burns. Someone gets knocked out. Another person gets hit by a car. A woman smacks into a car door, breaking the window and falling to the ground.
People get into a fistfight. Someone uses her rear to slam people to the ground. A character gets thrown into a wall, denting it.
The f-word is used about 90 times, including roughly fifteen uses with “mother.” The s-word is used nearly 50 times. The n-word is heard about 20 times. Words such as “a–,” “b–ch,” “d–n” and “h—” are all uttered at least 10 times each. We also hear crude slang for the male and female anatomy. God’s name is used in vain about 20 times, including six uses with “d–n.” Jesus’ name is used in vain once.
Characters smoke marijuana as well as drink martinis and wine. Dreux mentions dealing with drunk and high customers as a waitress. Someone describes Dreux and Alyssa as “junior crackheads.”
We watch as a dog defecates on a sidewalk. Someone steals a large amount of money. A man steals fast food orders. A landlord treats one woman better than his other tenants just because she’s white.
You ever have “one of them days?” Days where, no matter what you do, nothing seems to go your way?
Those days are, at best, exhausting. At worst, they can be soul-crushing. But they’re a little more tolerable when you’ve got a friend to endure them with you.
Dreux and Alyssa suffer one such day together when Alyssa’s uncaring boyfriend selfishly takes their rent money to spend it on his own ventures. The pair spends the rest of the movie attempting to raise enough money to make sure they can stay in their apartment.
But while a friend makes these days far better, Dreux and Alyssa’s bad day is filled with plenty of foul content. The movie sets up a simple plot, and the biggest issue here is that much of its “comedy” comes from crude references or visuals.
The film makes many sexual references and intentionally showcases a guy’s anatomy through his underwear—as well as ogling at a woman’s rear elsewhere. A blood donation goes awry when the stuff sprays over everyone present, painting the room red. A gang member tries to kill the two friends. People profess many vague spiritual beliefs. And heavy language? The profanity tally here reaches well into the hundreds.
But unlike our main characters, viewers won’t even get paid for their troubles.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
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