| | | So many women. So little time.
Features: DVD
This film features a first-rate ensemble cast led by Bill Bellamy (Love Jones), Natalie Desselle (B.A.P.S.), Mari Morrow (Virtuosity), Lark Voorhies (NBC's Saved By The Bell), Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin), and former supermodel Beverly Johnson. It was directed by renowned music video director Lionel Martin who has worked with major forces in the urban music industry including Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton and Whitney Houston. Meet Dray Jackson (Bellamy). People call him a "Player". He is handsome, charming, clever and smooth. He has it all -- the car, the clothes, the job. Women love him. And Dray loves women. Dray's friends, David, Kilo and Spootie are not players, but their goal is to become players. Hence, one beautiful day in Southern California they embark on a mission to study Dray's master technique. They observe Dray's lucid ability to move from woman to woman without ever sparking suspicion from his steady girlfriend Lisa (Voorhies). However, Dray's carefree, dishonest attitude is about to be challenged. Meet Dray's sister Jenny (Desselle). Jenny is an intelligent woman with a feminist temperament. On behalf of women everywhere Jenny is determined to teach her brother a lesson -- to out-play the player. Dray's past and present girlfriends unite to thrown him a "surprise" party. What emerges is a hilarious battle between the sexes.
"...a lively, brainless...farce..." Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
Silky smooth MTV veejay Bellamy turns up the unctuous charm as a "player" whose casual dalliances with multiple women come up to bite him when his right-thinking sister invites his entire unsuspecting menagerie to a Malibu party. Look for a fun bit from blaxploitation superstud Max Julien ("The Mack").
| Features | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | Interactive Menus | | Cast/Crew Bios | | French Subtitles | | Widescreen Version | | Standard Version | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 5/27/2003 |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 22670 | | UPC: 00025192267024 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1/4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
Bill Bellamy, the popular MTV veejay, stand-up comic and host of HBO's Def Comedy Jam, is making a career for himself as a light comedian. We saw him...in the underrated, overlooked love jones, and now he's starring in How to Be a Player, a lively, brainless sex farce... Bellamy, good-looking and with a gift for throwaway dialogue, plays Dray, a well-heeled brother with an elegant loft, a red convertible and an assortment of ladies on a string. He's a "player" par excellence, with a knack for snaring women, getting them hooked on his sex appeal and then keeping them at a safe distance... The humor is unabashedly lowbrow -- the kind of stuff that plays on Martin and other Fox and WB sitcoms, only more graphic and more gleefully sexist. Fat jokes, booty jokes, cheatin' and creepin' jokes... Does a thread of social consciousness run beneath this farce? Of course not, and once you accept that fact there isn't much to get upset by in How to Be a Player. It never pretends to be anything that it isn't: just a glib, sexist, politically indifferent goof with foxy performers...and the occasional funny line. Aside from Bellamy, who was very good in love jones and perfectly passable here, the standouts include Desselle, who's incapable of not being funny, and Pierre, an African American whose light skin prompts a series of beige jokes. - Edward Guthmann
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