Diamond tries to keep her chin up, but she knows that what she is doing is cheapening and rancid. Containing ugly and gritty violence and sexual situations, it is a movie with little redeeming value. The seeds of THE PLAYER'S CLUB were planted in 1991 when Ice Cube visited the strip clubs of Atlanta. As Diamond tries to stop her cousin from becoming a prostitute, Dollar Bill is chased by loan sharks resulting in violence and tragedy. Other dancers including Ronnie and Tricks despise Diana for keeping her spirit and making more money. Diana becomes a popular attraction, even giving out degrading table dances. The Players Club is run by a two-bit hustler named Dollar Bill who owes money to a hoodlum. She works by night at a strip club called The Players Club and attends school during the day. Diana Armstrong dreams of becoming a broadcast journalist. Tricks & Dollar Bill (the club's owner) come to check on her (w/hilarious commentary from Lil Man, the doorman) until the police arrive to take Ronnie & Tricks into custody for their involvement in Ebony's rape.Ice Cube wrote and directed THE PLAYERS CLUB. After a back & forth, they begin a brutal catfight, in which Diamond prevails over the larger Ronnie, leaving her bloodied & knocked out. Diamond & Blue arrive, clear out the dressing room, & Diamond instructs him to guard the door while she confronts Ronnie. In the meantime, Ronnie makes it to the club w/intentions of lying & saying that it was her alibi all night. & her love interest, hesitantly comes to check on Ebony & breaks down at the sight of her abandoned & abused cousin, telling Blue to call for help. Ronnie comes back to see the party ending, checks on Ebony & flips out at her unconscious naked body. Junior goes in the back, turns off the lights, & proceeds to rape & brutally assault Ebony the sounds of which cause the party to empty out. One of the party guests, Reggie (who earlier tried to pick up Ebony for a train w/his friend Clyde) convinces Junior to go in the back & seduce Ebony while Clyde took Ronnie outside to smoke weed. A call to Diamond doesn't get her help, as their relationship is soured due to her emulation of Ronnie. So on the night of the party, Ebony is in the backroom while all the men are waiting & Ronnie is coaching her to perform. However, the truth was every other woman asked had firmly turned it down. As she busted her cousin for attending a similar party w/Ronnie, she was fearful of the worst.įast forward to the climax, where Ronnie manipulates Ebony into being the dancer at her little brother Junior's bachelor party under the guise that she wouldn't be the lone girl there. At this one party of all women clients, Diamond got wasted past sound consciousness & Ronnie raped her. Apparently, Ronnie once had Diamond along for her side gig of moonlighting as an escort (w/ clients' genders left ambiguous). During this time, we get a flashback from Diamond that answers the reason for her fallout w/Ronnie. Later, when Diamond's 18-year-old cousin, Ebony, comes to stay w/her (w/her intentions of working at the club), Ronnie, knowing it would get under Diamond's skin, immediately latches on to Ebony & begins manipulating/corrupting her. When Diana, now know as Diamond, first starts, Ronnie takes her under her wing for a period of time until Diamond abruptly breaks from her. She persuaded the film's protagonist, Diana, into quitting her shoe store job & working at the club for more money. Ronnie, along w/her friend/partner-in-crime Tricks, is the HBIC among the ranks of the dancers at the Players Club. Greedy, Self-centered, Manipulative Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) is the main antagonist of the 1998 movie The Players Club.
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