How to Be a Player

How to Be a Player (1997)

  • 14% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (6,611 ratings)

A man who's devoted his life to running around on his woman finally meets his match in this comedy. Dray Jackson (Bill Bellamy) is a ladies' man par excellence, who never lets the fact that he has a girlfriend, Lisa (Lark Voorhies), get in the way of making time with as many other women as possible.… More

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By
Lionel C. Martin
Written By
Mark Brown, Demetria Johnson
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 6, 1997 Wide
On DVD
Jan 11, 2000
PolyGram Video

Critic Reviews

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    I watched the whole movie and am still not a "player." Therefore the film is a failure. Plus it's also pretty awful.

  • David Noh, Film Journal International

    Riddled with misogyny, glorifying slovenliness and brutish behavior, Def Jam's How to Be a Player doesn't even begin to come up with the nasty laughs of a Booty Call or Sprung.

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