Great, realistic plot about the lives of hard working young women. Acting is terrific, situations believeable & characters worth caring about.

The girls were gorgeous but that's it. The story was bland. The writing wasn't good. There was no comedy. This was a big disappointment. Tim Treakle

Support the Girls was pretty boring. There was some good commentary on gender dynamics, but otherwise this was a pretty dismal movie. I think this was suppose to be a female-led workplace comedy, but there were very few laughs to be had. Skip this one, and rewatch Waiting or Office Space.

It's a pretty slow, shallow film; they used to call these B movies. I can't recommend it and would never watch it again. 91%.....Mmmmmm

I love when films show you don't need a big budget, or, even a decent budget to make a good movie. Think; Office Space with hard-working women who put up with far more than they should have to at work.

this lovely, hilarious, and sweet little movie will make your heart melt. regina hall is an icon and haley lu and junglepu$$y are scene stealers.

First off, I see this is categorised as a comedy film - I fail to see where the real laugh out loud typ comedy is in this film, as it tackles some important themes, though there are ocassionally very slightly amusing moments at a stretch I suppose. More than that, I definitely respected the main character, bar manager Lisa (played very well by Regina Hall) who really seems to have her colleagues/co-workers backs, as it were. It's fair to say she's tested by what she faces on the day this film covers and themes covered include sexual assault and violence. This is very much an American film, culturally speaking, set in a 'sports bar with curves' (think a 'Hooters' type bar). I enjoyed seeing the way the girls open up to one another and how Lisa dealt with things. This is a part sobering, ocassionally amusing watch, which is memorable and stands out for one main reason - the way the main character, Lisa, defends and supports her employees and how they help her. It felt somehow refreshing and re-assuring. It isn't a film I'd recommend from a comedy point of view but generally, as a character based drama about female independence, I'd say yes, its worth seeing, so I'd recommend it in that way, yes.

This film offers great insight into the modern experience of life, its highlights and low-lives. It's a parable, really.

Support the Girls is a beautifully quiet statement about feminsim. It's realistic, pragmatic and very human. Lisa is the manager of a sports bar in Texas named Double Whammies. It features skimpily dressed waitresses but she makes sure there are standards in place and treats the girls very well. It's like a family but like most families there is drama. Set over one day we go through the trials and tribulations of Lisa and her girls. She is under threat of firing from a petty owner and are enough little dramas to keep the day interesting. The film has a beautiful energy and as said it stakes its claim for feminism without hitting you over the head. Regina Hall is excellent as Lisa in a sea of good performances. A film to enjoy and admire in full.

Might be Bujalski's best movie yet! Such a great story, great acting, even funny sometimes.

Not a film I'm probably going to remember over time. That said, it's still quite good thanks to a strong lead performance from Regina Hall and some funny scenes.

Booooooooooooorrrrring

Support the Girls is one of those rare movies that is better the second or third time around. It sneaked up on me; I didn't see the curve coming, and on my first viewing, it seemed to lag ... but once Cubby fires Lisa, the film turns quickly. Masks start slipping. It's one character reveal after another, and little nagging thoughts kept popping up -- enough that I watched it again just to confirm my suspicions about how much foreshadowing had been going on. The answer: a lot, but the movie doesn't tip its hand early. Regina Hall as Lisa is superb and is the narrative foundation around whom the film is built, but it's not until the final scene that we really understand the iron triangle of Lisa, Maci (Haley Lu Richardson) and Danyelle (Shana McHayle) that was the secret sauce of Double Whammies. And Cubby fired all of them. At the very end, the film could have jumped ahead a month or so and shown the going out of business scene. "Slice of life" films may be tricky for theatrical productions, where the audience expects a narrative to build to a climax and a resolution in two hours, three at the max. But "slice of life" is where long-running television shows thrive, and Support the Girls would have been a fantastic pilot for a series with an ensemble cast worthy of a very long run. Of course, the tv pilot would have had to be plotted differently; too many people get fired in the movie. (Lisa fires two before Cubby fires the Big Three, and all five would be regulars in a series.) For a tv show you need to keep the cast around. But that's a manageable detail. Every character in the core Double Whammies group -- employees and regular patrons alike -- has a couple of moments in which they show flashes of a complex underlying character, the kind of thing that a long-running tv show would build out over time. We are "introduced" to Officer Dominguez, for example, when Lisa tells the new trainees that a lot of police officers are regulars, and Maci, in her bubble-headed ditz mode, giggles that Officer Dominguez is a cutie. That creates a set of expectations -- but then we actually meet Officer Dominguez, who is splendidly professional and tactful in dealing with the burglar in the duct; we then see him as a sober, respectful patron; and he is a rock in the chaos scene when Maci and Danyelle kick off their rebellion. He is a protector, one of the adults in the room, and a friend. So is Bobo, an obscure sideline figure cracking one-liners from her booth early in the movie, but another protector in the crunch. And one should notice that none of the regular Double Whammies group are at all surprised when Bobo rises to the occasion in a moment of crisis; they already know her. The professor? He's a completely comic figure, certainly -- he can't be otherwise given the age difference in his secret relationship -- but he's an elderly gentleman (emphasis on "gentleman"), probably a lonely widower, who had been a professor and a lawyer, who steps forward when one of the girls needs legal assistance, and who we learn at the end is a "really nice man" who treats his much younger romantic interest really nicely as well. And she would know -- because by the end of the movie we realize that Maci isn't a bubble-headed ditz at all, but a natural sweetheart with her head screwed on straight who knows exactly what she's doing, chocolate milk and all. It's no accident that the film opens with Lisa crying in her car and Maci, the first to arrive, pecking at the window and comforting her boss. Here's betting that Maci is always the first to arrive, and she probably closes the place too. (Haley Lu Richardson is brilliant at acting in the background; she's one of the best scene stealers in the business today. She and Regina Hall are a terrific pair and I'd love to see them work together again.) Go on down the list. The whole core group would be excellent series regulars in a long-running show. Even Cubby, terrible boss that he is, is obviously a deeply unhappy man, trapped somewhere he doesn't want to be, with a backstory to be unpacked. If this were a tv show, I'm betting that he'd be a sympathetic character by season three. Part of me wishes that this project had been picked up by one of the streaming networks for that purpose. Support the Girls is worth a watch. To appreciate it, watch it a second time.

I watched this movie right after watching a Judd Apatow comedy about another spoiled white boy who can't manage to grow up. This was a refreshing reminder of what real problems look like and what it takes to get through them. Inspiring.

Worst movie I've seen that I can remember

This movie finished as it started, pretty much having gone nowhere, nothing significant happened and whatever point it was trying to make, it clearly never got across to me. Waste of time

Feels strange to call this movie a comedy yet it is one.

Beautifully inspiring.

This is a great movie about a group of coworkers who work in a restaurant and share a bunch of struggles together. It's loosely plotted and focuses on character over story.

This movie probably was a nice idea but it just didn't work for me. Only the main character was sympathetic. And I really couldn't make out what was happening and what the actors were saying with their Southern American accents, speaking and mumbling. I was really grateful when it finally ended. I am sorry to say but it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I should have walked out but being British with a stiff upper lip I stuck it out to the bitter end. I could have joined in with their final screams.