Set It Off
“It's about crime. It's about payback. It's about survival.”
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Studio
New Line Cinema
Language
en
Status
Released
How Set It Off performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$41.6M
Gross Profit
$32.6M
Return
4.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$7M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Stony
Jada Pinkett Smith
Stony
Cleo
Queen Latifah
Cleo
Frankie
Vivica A. Fox
Frankie
Tisean
Kimberly Elise
Tisean
Keith
Blair Underwood
Keith
Detective Strode
John C. McGinley
Detective Strode
Ms. Wells
Anna Maria Horsford
Ms. Wells
Detective Waller
Ella Joyce
Detective Waller
Nate
Charles Robinson
Nate
Stevie
Chaz Lamar Shepherd
Stevie
Jajuan
Vincent Baum
Jajuan
Jajuan
Van Baum
Jajuan
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