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Release Date
• USA: Apr 7, 2006
Budget USD 1,000,000
BoxOffice: $6.9M
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language, including some crude sexual references.
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Outlaw Productions, Sneak Preview Entertainment, 10 Times Greater Productions
Studio Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Other Titles
• Phat Girlz (2006)
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Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Her dreams are about to get a whole lot bigger
Plot: In this feel-good comedy with a positive message, Mo'Nique stands up for all the overweight women given short shrift by society. One of a group of three friends that includes her hot-to-trot thin cousin Mia (Joyful Drake) and her frumpy friend Stacey (Kendra C. Johnson), Jazmin dreams of starting her own fashion line for big girls. Meanwhile her crash diets aren't working and she hasn't been with a man in nine months. Then she wins a trip to Palm Springs and meets Tunde (Jimmy Jean-Louis), a Nigerian doctor, for whom big means beautiful. Romance is all set to bloom, but that's where this Cinderella story takes a sudden detour. Jazmin learns there's more to happiness than a gorgeous man, especially when her low self-esteem keeps him at arm's length. With its interesting insights into weight discrimination and its celebratory depiction of African and African American culture, PHAT GIRLZ grows into a "feel good about yourself" movie, no matter what size, gender, or color you may be. Comedy star Mo'Nique proves she's got the heft to carry a leading feature film role, especially during her mannequin-destroying, room-shredding third act meltdown. As her knight in shining armor, Jean-Louis does the beaming-with-African-charm-and-dignity thing very well, and even though she's not
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...Not that you go to a sophomoric, broad comedy like this expecting much in the way of emoting, but it's depressing to see once-promising actors like Jack Noseworthy and Eric Roberts reduced to playing fifth and sixth banana in such a big phat mistake of a movie.  --TIM KNIGHT (Reel.com)
...is a sincere, good-hearted movie told from an uncommon perspective: that of a fat woman. The fact that it's very obviously a first effort, was cheaply shot and badly edited and moves at an ungainly pace is almost irrelevant. You want to like it anyway, just for what it's trying to do... B---Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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