"SUPPORT THE GIRLS"...........BIG BOOBS AND FLAT SCREENS......

Support The Girls  (2018)    We don't claim to be movie marketing geniuses, but whoever decided to push this film as a comedy needs their head examined.........

                   A comedy?  Jeez, the film opens with its lead character Lisa (Regina Hall) crying in her car before she starts her long day's work.....

                   Who can blame her?  She's managing 'Double Whammies' a pub-food 'n beer sports bar, a blatantly fictionalized version of Hooters......complete with a slew of nubile waitresses decked out in short-shorts and cutoff shirts barely containing their breasts.

                   Like 'Hooters', and 'Twin Peaks', 'Double Whammies' wants it every which way.......to attract a family crowd and still pull in all the guys who come in to ogle the girls and guzzle, as this movie calls them, 'Big Ass Beers'.........

                    But not a nationwide franchise......this dump is privately owned by a creepy jerk (James Le Gros) who generally makes Lisa's life even more miserable than it already is.......

                    We don't kid about the misery......Lisa wrangles her dsyfunctional, unreliable girls while dealing with an attempted robbery that dismantled the cable feed in the restaurant's many flat screen TVs........on the eve of a big televised boxing match.

                    So pardon us if we didn't find any of this even remotely funny.......but we watched genuinely delighted because the entire film functions as a virtual one-woman show for Regina Hall.

                    Hall and her wild workaday ups and downs take center stage here.......it's a guaranteed role-of-a-lifetime and Hall goes to town with it and delivers in spectacular fashion. In our humble opinion, her name ought to turn up nominated actresses in all the award shows......

                    After Hall, Haley Lu Richardson easily grabs the supporting MVP role as one of the 'Double Whammies' servers. She gets her moment in the sun as she stands atop the bar, rallying impatient customers waiting for Le Gros to re-connect the cable TV in time for the boxing event.

                    As someone who toiled in the service industry many hundreds of years ago, we winced, groaned and sympathized with Regina Hall and all the personal and business woes the story heaps upon her in the course of one day.

                    Not a comedy by any stretch.......but one hell of a fast, breezy dramady......with one of the best performances you'll see all year.  3 & 1/2 stars (***1/2)