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How to Be a Player

  • Director: Lionel C. Martin
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Sex Comedy, Screwball Comedy
  • Themes: Playing the Field, Battle of the Sexes, Romantic Betrayal
  • Main Cast: Bill Bellamy, Natalie Desselle, Lark Voorhies, Mari Morrow, Pierre Edwards
  • Release Year: 1997
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

A man who's devoted his life to running around on his woman finally meets his match in this comedy. Dray Jackson (Bill Bellamy) is a ladies' man par excellence, who never lets the fact that he has a girlfriend, Lisa (Lark Voorhies), get in the way of making time with as many other women as possible. As he spends a typical day going from house to house "visiting" a number of beautiful females, Dray fills his friends David (Pierre Edwards), Kilo (Jermaine Hopkins), and Spootie (A.J. Johnson) in on the finer points of the art of having as many ladies as you want without getting caught. Dray's sister Jenny (Natalie Desselle) and her friend Katrina (Mari Morrow) are at once disgusted and morbidly fascinated with Dray's cheerful, chronic infidelity, and since Jenny is studying anthropology, they decide that Dray's lifestyle would be a worthy subject for research. Deciding to see what would happen if Dray was really put to the test (and maybe teach him a lesson in the process), Jenny and Katrina throw a party, and they invite Dray -- and all the women whose telephone numbers appear in his address book. Max Julien, best known for his role as the ultra-smooth pimp in the blaxploitation classic The Mack, appears as Dray's lady-killing Uncle Fred. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Bill Bellamy - Drayton Jackson
  • Natalie Desselle - Jenny Jackson
  • Lark Voorhies - Lisa
  • Mari Morrow - Katrina
  • Pierre Edwards - David
Jermaine Hopkins - Kilo; A.J. Johnson - Spootie; Max Julien - Uncle Fred; Beverly Johnson - Robin; Gilbert Gottfried - Tony the Doorman; Bernie Mac - Buster; Stacii Jae Johnson - Sherri; Elise Neal - Nadine; J. Anthony Brown - Uncle Snook; Amber Smith - Amber; Devika Parikh - Barbara; Bebe Drake - Mama Jackson; Gillian Iliana Waters - Shante

Credit

Jaki Brown-Karman - Casting, Robyn Mitchell - Casting, Carrie Morrow - Co-producer, Joanna Milter - Co-producer, Rose Catherine Pinkney - Co-producer, Mimi Melgaard - Costume Designer, Barry Thomas - First Assistant Director, Lionel C. Martin - Director, William Young - Editor, Stan Lathan - Executive Producer, Robert Newmyer - Executive Producer, Jeffrey Silver - Executive Producer, Darren Floyd - Composer (Music Score), Bruce Curtis - Production Designer, Mark Burg - Producer, Preston Holmes - Producer, Russell Simmons - Producer, Todd Baker - Producer, Claire Kaufman - Set Designer, Matthew Markey - Sound/Sound Designer, Mark Brown - Screen Story, Demetria Johnson - Screenwriter, Mark Brown - Screenwriter

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