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Name: Phat Girlz
Released: 2006-4-7
Cast: Monique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Kendra C. Johnson, Joyful Drake

Phat Girlz

PG-13
1h 39m
2006

21%

age 16+

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An edgy comedy about two frustrated plus-size women obsessed with their weight while struggling to find love and acceptance in a world full of "hot bodied" babes.

Director:

Nnegest Likke

Producer:

Bobby Newmyer, Steven J. Wolfe

Writer:

Nnegest Likke

Cast:

Monique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Kendra C. Johnson, Joyful Drake, Jack Noseworthy, Eric Roberts

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

21%

Critics Consensus: Although Phat Girlz has good intentions, it is sloppily made and thin on laughs.

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

It feels like somewhere between vision and production the film-maker lost his way.

It does suffer ... from actually having way too much heart and not enough soul, its identity lost far beneath its ambitions for affirmation.

June 21, 2017

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Film Journal International

David Noh

Although Phat Girlz...looks to have been made on a shoestring, with muddy, unflattering lighting (by two cinematographers), there is nonetheless something to be commended here.

June 21, 2017

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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

John Beifuss

Almost stunning in its determination to be the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy vehicle for plus-sized African-American women...

June 21, 2017

3BlackChicks Review

Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

Skinny on plot, story, directing and some of the acting.

June 21, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Uneven Mo'Nique vehicle; not for kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this film includes sexual imagery ("comic" sex scenes, against a wall, passionate-awkward kissing, in a suds-filled tub) and language (slang for genitals and sexual activity). The film also includes language that pushes the PG-13 edge, including one f-word and especially, repetition of the word "bitch" (which Jazmin uses in reference to herself as well as the "skinny bitches" she hates). Some antic violence (as when Jazmin hits a girl and a man who call her "fat," or drops objects from her apartment window and hits her cousin on the sidewalk).