Directed by Andrew Bujalski
USA | 2018 | Fiction | 90 min
Film Source: Magnolia
Sponsor: Bridget Downey Meyer
Support the Girls is a feminist comedy set in the unlikeliest of locales: a Hooters-like Texan bar whose marketing mantra is “boobs, brews and big screens.” Regina Hall, in a marvelous performance, plays the general manager of Double Whammies, a “sports bar with curves.” During the course of a trying workday fraught with comic mishaps, she struggles to balance job responsibilities with her motherly devotion to her waitresses. Writer-director Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha; Computer Chess) tackles the gender politics of macho sports-bar culture with unassuming perception and a keen comedic eye for the behind-the-scenes details of the restaurant industry. In the midst of the #MeToo movement, Support the Girls is a timely look at the ways working-class women create support systems to survive until the next shift. ~LB