Set It Off is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise , as four close friends in Los Angeles, California who decide to plan and execute a bank robbery. They decide to do so for different reasons, although all four want better for themselves and their families. Francesca "Frankie" Sutton has lost her job as a bank teller after the bank she worked at is robbed. While being interrogated by Detective Strode, she reveals that she’s familiar with one of the robbers. Her boss fires her because he... is uneasy about the fact that they know each other and that Frankie failed to follow the bank's procedure when being robbed. Frankie reluctantly gets a job at a janitorial company. Her friends Lita "Stoney" Newsome, Cleopatra "Cleo" Sims, and Tisean "T.T." Williams work there as well. Stoney is devastated and furious at the loss of her brother Stevie because he was wrongfully gunned down by police after they mistakenly identify him as one of the surviving bank robbers.
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| Release date: | November 10, 1996 |
| Directed by: | F. Gary Gray |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | F. Gary Gray, Dale Pollock |
| Music by: | Christopher Young |
| Screenplay by: | Takashi Bufford, Kate Lanier |
| Estimated budget: | $9,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action, Thriller |