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White Chicks
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKeenen Ivory Wayans
Written byKeenen Ivory Wayans
Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Xavier Cook
Andy McElfresh
Michael Anthony Snowden
Produced byKeenen Ivory Wayans
Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
StarringShawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Busy Phillips
Terry Crews
Jennifer Carpenter
Jaime King
Lochlyn Munro
Jessica Cauffiel
Frankie Faison
Brittany Daniel
CinematographySteven Bernstein
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 23, 2004 (2004-06-23)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryTemplate:FilmUS
LanguageEnglish
Budget$37 million[1]
Box office$113,086,475[1]

White Chicks is a 2004 American film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and written and produced by Keenen Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. The film was produced by Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios. The plot revolves around whiteface drag, as two African American FBI agents disguise themselves as white women.

Plot

The plot begins in a convenience store where two FBI agents and brothers, Kevin Copeland and Marcus Copeland (Shawn and Marlon Wayans), posing as Afro-Cuban clerks, try to capture members of an organization that sells drugs inside ice cream boxes. Unfortunately, the first arrival turns out to be a genuine ice cream delivery, and the actual drug dealers manage to get away. The situation is worsened by the fact that Kevin and Marcus have decided to resolve this bust by themselves.

The FBI supervisor, Elliott Gordon (Frankie Faison), gives the two agents a last chance to remain in the FBI by giving them the duty of protecting the mega-rich billionaire cruise line heiresses and socialites Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek), who are arriving in town for the last social event of the summer in the Hampton's, from a kidnapping plot (known as The Socialite Kidnappings). When the Wilson sisters get minor facial cuts in a car accident, they refuse to leave the hotel. Kevin and Marcus then disguise themselves as the Wilson sisters in order to save their jobs.

At the Hamptons hotel, Kevin and Marcus meet Brittany and Tiffany's three best friends, Karen (Busy Philipps), Tori (Jessica Cauffiel) and Lisa (Jennifer Carpenter), and their rivals Megan (Brittany Daniel) and Heather (Jaime King) Vandergeld. In addition, basketball player Latrell Spencer (Terry Crews) takes an interest in Marcus/Tiffany, thinking that he is Tiffany, while Kevin shows interest in reporter Denise Porter (Rochelle Aytes). During a date auction being hosted by the Vandergelds, a date with Marcus/Tiffany is sold to Latrell for $50,000. The next day, Brittany, Tiffany, Karen, Tori and Lisa go to the beach where Latrell appears at the beach to flirt with Marcus/Tiffany, and Kevin/Brittany takes advantage of the situation and goes to Latrell's beach room to change into Latrell's clothes and pretends to be Latrell (as Kevin) and asks Denise out because Denise has a history of dating rich men. When Marcus/Tiffany goes on his charity auction date with Latrell, Kevin steals the keys to Latrell's car and house and takes Denise to Latrell's house where he ends up getting mauled by Latrell's dog.

Marcus/Tiffany and Latrell end up at a club and meet up with the rest of the girls and Kevin/Brittany who end up in a dance off with the Vandergeld sisters. Marcus/Tiffany and Kevin/Brittany win the dance off by break-dancing. However, Karen, who has been seeing Heather's boyfriend Heath behind her back but is constantly rejected by him, drinks heavily and runs to the bathroom with Marcus/Tiffany and Kevin/Brittany to throw up and lets it slip that Mr. Vandergeld is broke. The next day, the real Brittany and Tiffany see their faces on Page Six of the New York Post and think they have been cloned. They go to the Hamptons where their "clones" were seen, and two FBI agents, Agents Harper and Gomez, believing that they are Kevin and Marcus, strip them. This leads to the chief finding out that Marcus and Kevin have been impersonating Brittany and Tiffany and fires them. Later on, Kevin and Marcus figure out that Mr. Vandergeld, along with Heath, has been behind The Socialite kidnappings. Kevin and Marcus decide that even though they are fired, they are going to the fashion show.

Marcus/Tiffany and Kevin/Brittany arrive at the fashion show and are informed that they will be walking the catwalk. Also, the real Tiffany and Brittany arrive and hear the same news. Right before taking the runway, Heath tells Karen that he admired her at the dance club and tells her that Heather is leaving that night and Karen should come over for a booty call. Karen tells him that she is better than a booty call and is not his doormat. Heath then says that she should not think herself that special. Marcus/Tiffany than hits Heath in the face, where Heath tells Marcus/Tiffany that she will regret that. During the fashion show, chaos ensues when Marcus/Tiffany and Kevin/Brittany have been tricked by Megan and Heather to wear Björk-like swan dresses on the runway fashion show. Heather and Megan fall from the rafters and the red paint they were going to use to spill on Tiffany and Brittany falls on them instead. Then the real Brittany and Tiffany come out on the runway. Mr. Vandergeld instructs Heath to turn off the lights and kidnap the Wilson sisters, so Heath comes to the stage under a large Chinese dragon costume and kidnaps Marcus/Tiffany and Brittany. Kevin/Brittany sees Marcus/Tiffany's shoes under the dragon, runs after it and tackles the entire costume, which releases the captives.

Heath is with Marcus/Tiffany and tells him that he said he would get her back and hits on her. Marcus/Tiffany responds back and knocks him out cold. Meanwhile, Mr. Vandergeld takes the real Tiffany and Brittany and tries to run off with them. He is caught up to and confronted whereupon he admits he is bankrupt and has been funneling money from the charity because he is "MC Hammer broke". Denise and her cameraman have been filming the entire time and Mr. Vandergeld shoots at her, but Kevin/Brittany jumps in between and pushes Denise to the ground and out of the way. Mr. Vandergeld then shoots at Marcus/Tiffany, but Latrell jumps in front of the bullet and takes the hit, and is shocked and enraged to discover that Marcus/Tiffany, after unmasking himself, is black (he did not seem to mind that Marcus was male). Kevin/Brittany also unmasks himself after Marcus' wife, Gina, attacks him because she believed that Kevin/Brittany was having an affair with Marcus. The chief then appears to tell Marcus, Kevin and Agents Gomez and Harper that they all disobeyed him, but they did the right thing and the chief expects them all back at the office the next morning. Marcus apologizes to Gina after realizing that being a female is a hard task and because he had been ignoring Gina for his job. Kevin asks Denise out and she replies that she would of course date the man willing to take a bullet for her. The movie ends with Tori, Lisa, Karen, Kevin and Marcus making a pact to stay together and go shopping.


Cast

Reception

Critical response

The film received poor reactions from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an aggregate rating of only 15% based on 121 reviews. Film critic Richard Roeper put the film at #1 on his list of the worst films of 2004 amongst claims of unconvincing prosthetics and was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.[citation needed].

Box office

It grossed $70,831,760 at the U.S. box office, $113,048,997 worldwide and has become popular on broadcast cable.

Soundtrack

  1. "Latin Thugs" – Cypress Hill
  2. "Hey Ms. Wilson" – The Penfifteen Club
  3. "Shake It (Like a White Girl)" – Jesse Jaymes (Copeland)
  4. "A Thousand Miles" – Vanessa Carlton
  5. "Realest Niggas" – 50 Cent, Notorious B.I.G., Eminem
  6. "White Girls" – Mighty Casey
  7. "Dance City" – Oscar Hernandez
  8. "Trouble" – P!nk
  9. "U Can't Touch This" – MC Hammer
  10. "Dance, Dance, Dance" – The Beach Boys
  11. "Guantanamera" – Jose Fernandez Diaz
  12. "It's My Life" – No Doubt
  13. "(I Got That) Boom Boom" – Britney Spears ft. Ying Yang Twins
  14. "Bounce (The Bandit Club Remix) " - Stock, IC Green
  15. "Crazy in Love" – Beyoncé, Jay-Z
  16. "It's Tricky" – Run–D.M.C.
  17. "This Love" – Maroon 5
  18. "No Control" – Blackfire
  19. "I Wanna Know" – Joe
  20. "Tipsy" – J-Kwon
  21. "Satisfaction" – Benny Benassi
  22. "Let's Get It Started" – Black Eyed Peas
  23. "Move Your Feet" – Junior Senior
  24. "Final Heartbreak" – Jessica Simpson
  25. "I Need Your Love Tonight" – Elvis Presley

Sequel

On August 16, 2009, it was reported that a sequel is in the works with Keenan Ivory Wayans set to direct and write again along with his brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Shawn and Marlon will reprise their roles as black FBI agents pretending to be white women.[2] Marlon Wayans said "In the lab writing White Chicks 2, and in the gym cutting pounds. Who says showbiz is easy? It was nice to have shoulders. Oh well..." from his Twitter on August 27, 2009.[3] On December 4, Shawn and Marlon Wayans announced on Good Day L.A. that a sequel was in production and will be released in 2011. However in November 2010, their White Chicks co-star Terry Crews said that Sony Pictures had pulled the plug on plans to make a sequel.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b [1]
  2. ^ http://www.cinemablend.com/new/White-Chicks-2-Tropic-Thunder-Payback-14388.html
  3. ^ Marlon Wayans (August 27, 2009) http://twitter.com/marlonlwayans
  4. ^ "Terry Crews Says "White Chicks 2" is Dead". WorstPreviews.com. November 24, 2010.
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