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How to Be a Player (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 1  Rotten:6 Average Rating: 3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis:
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... [More]
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"). [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Bill Bellamy, Natalie Desselle, Lark Voorhies, Mari Morrow, Pierre Edwards

Director: Lionel C. Martin
Screenwriter: Mark Brown, Demetria Johnson
Story: Mark Brown
Producer: Todd R. Baker, Mark Burg, Preston L. Holmes, Russell Simmons

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Nov 4, 2002

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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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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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