Lisa Conroy is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,'-- but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely--but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction...Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it.
February 5, 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA
25 April 1985, Fredericksburg, Texas, USA
7 May 1994, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 December 1983, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 October 1994, Austin, Texas, USA
13 September 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 June 1984, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
27 April 1962, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
4 February 1991, Austin, Texas, USA
August 28, 2018
It's sweet, but not syrupy; it's truthful, but not cynical. It's a breath of fresh air, accessible, and a real gem of American independent filmmaking...
August 24, 2018
Regina Hall so fully inhabits Lisa's life we hardly feel apart from her, tugged by the same frustrations, goodwill, minor satisfactions and disappointments.
August 24, 2018
It's a celebration of sisterhood...This movie is so understated that this theme sneaks up on you in ways that are quietly powerful.
August 24, 2018
Support the Girls somehow manages to do it all, and in the form of a breezy, heartwarming workplace comedy to boot. There won't be another film like it this year.
August 24, 2018
The unlikely, bittersweet, bristling comedy Support the Girls is easily one of the best films of the year, and the most sympathetic to women.
August 27, 2018
It's easily one of the most humanistic and funny comedies of the summer, with a career best performance by Regina Hall.
August 26, 2018
Like the joint at its center, the movie is somewhat untidy and rough around the edges, but Bujalski's affection for the characters comes through.
August 27, 2018
As much as this is a film about work, it is also, quite frankly, a film about the ways men unknowingly, without even really trying, make women's lives harder.
August 27, 2018
Bujalski has created something beautiful with bare-bones humility, humor and humanism.
August 25, 2018
"Crushing" is a good word at large for Support the Girls' approach to work, which as Bujalski sees it is equally tedious and necessary.
August 24, 2018
You could not ask for a better image of our country right now. You could not ask for a better American film to showcase it.
August 24, 2018
This chicken-wing emporium becomes a handy metaphor for women making their way through the patriarchy in writer-director Andrew Bujalski's observant and trenchantly funny new film.
