How to Be a Player (1997)
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14% of critics liked it
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72% of users liked it
(6,758 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… More 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. As he spends a typical day going from house to house "visiting" a number of beautiful females, Dray fills his friends David (Pierre Edwards), Kilo (Jermaine Hopkins), and Spootie (A.J. Johnson) in on the finer points of the art of having as many ladies as you want without getting caught. Dray's sister Jenny (Natalie Desselle) and her friend Katrina (Mari Morrow) are at once disgusted and morbidly fascinated with Dray's cheerful, chronic infidelity, and since Jenny is studying anthropology, they decide that Dray's lifestyle would be a worthy subject for research. Deciding to see what would happen if Dray was really put to the test (and maybe teach him a lesson in the process), Jenny and Katrina throw a party, and they invite Dray -- and all the women whose telephone numbers appear in his address book. Max Julien, best known for his role as the ultra-smooth pimp in the blaxploitation classic The Mack, appears as Dray's lady-killing Uncle Fred. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Lionel C. Martin
- Written By
- Mark Brown, Demetria Johnson
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Aug 6, 1997 Wide
- Studio
- PolyGram Video
Critic Reviews
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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.
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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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Cast
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Bill Bellamy
as Drayton Jackson
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Natalie Desselle
as Jenny Jackson
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Lark Voorhies
as Lisa
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Mari Morrow
as Katrina
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Pierre Edwards
as David
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Jermaine Hopkins
as Kilo
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A.J. Johnson
as Spootie
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Max Julien
as Uncle Fred
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Beverly Johnson
as Robin
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Gilbert Gottfried
as Tony the Doorman
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Bernie Mac
as Buster
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Stacii Jae Johnson
as Sherri
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Elise Neal
as Nadine
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J. Anthony Brown
as Uncle Snook
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Amber Smith
as Amber
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Devika Parikh
as Barbara
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Bebe Drake
as Mama Jackson
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Gillian Iliana Waters
as Shante
- Anthony Johnson
- Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins
