Foolish (1999)
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Rap music star and No Limit Records boss Master P, after a series of successful straight-to-video features and one theatrical release, I Got The Hook-Up, made a bid for wider big-screen success with Foolish, which teamed him with comedian Eddie Griffin. "Fifty Dollah" Waise (Master P) is… More Rap music star and No Limit Records boss Master P, after a series of successful straight-to-video features and one theatrical release, I Got The Hook-Up, made a bid for wider big-screen success with Foolish, which teamed him with comedian Eddie Griffin. "Fifty Dollah" Waise (Master P) is involved in a crime ring that earns him good money but worries his grandmother (Marla Gibbs), who dotes on him and encourages him to follow a more righteous path. Fifty Dollah's brother "Foolish" (Eddie Griffin) is an aspiring comedian, but his inability to get his career going convinces his older sibling he's wasting his talents. While Fifty Dollah tries to get his own life in order and give Foolish the push he needs, he also has to deal with a sudden conflict with criminal leader Eldorado Ron (Andrew Dice Clay) and a painful romantic triangle when he and Foolish fall for the same woman (Amy Petersen). In addition to music from Master P and a host of other No Limit artists, Foolish features an original score by former Prince associates Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. Master P also wrote the film's screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dave Meyers
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Apr 9, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- Lionsgate
Critic Reviews
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, Variety
A strange combination of urban melodrama and comedy concert film.
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Anita Gates, New York Times
The film loses complete credibility when the audiences at the comedy clubs where Foolish works go wild with delight, way out of proportion to the hilarity of the material. And Foolish is just a little too smug about his artistic integrity.
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Scott Tobias, AV Club
The miserable production values-the cardboard sets rival a Little Rascals talent show-and P's stone-faced delivery are merely amateurish, but as a vanity project for Griffin, Foolish is downright appalling.
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Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Eddie Griffin buffs have the best reason to check out this amateurish effort: Griffin's profane, sometimes sharply observed stand-up routines take up a big chunk of the movie's total running time.
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Mark Halverson, Sacramento News & Review
Griffin's few sparks onstage are not worth the wait.
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Cast
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Eddie Griffin
as Miles "Foolish" Waise
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Master P
as Quentin "Fifty Dollah" Waise
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Amy Petersen
as Desiree
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Frank Sivero
as Giovanni
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Daphnee Lynn Duplaix
as Charisse
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Jonathan Banks
as Numbers
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Andrew Dice Clay
as El Dorado Ron
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Marla Gibbs
as Odetta Waise
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Sven Ole Thorsen
as Paris
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Bill Nunn
as Jimmy Beck
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Bill Duke
as Studio Producer
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A.J. Johnson
as himself
- Frank Sivera
- Anthony Johnson
