Support the Girls

How filmmaker Andrew Bujalski and a sensational female cast turn story of sisterhood in Hooters-like workplace into one of the best films of 2018

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Andrew Bujalski’s ‘Support The Girls’ Is A Sincere, Optimistic Film Filled With Career-Best Performances

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Andrew Bujalski's dramedy about a tacky T&A restaurant serves up a terrific leading role for Regina Hall.

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Bujalski as a filmmaker has created a film as fascinating as anything in his previous output.

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Mr. Bujalski, who wrote as well as directed, doesn’t lean on shocks and big moments to spark tension or spur the narrative. A fine-grain realist, he creates modest, layered worlds and identifiably true characters, filling them in with details borrowed from life rather than the multiplex.

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It celebrates the unrecognized willpower and perseverance that undergirds low-wage service work in this country.

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In Andrew Bujalski and Regina Hall’s extremely capable hands, empathy becomes as active and compelling as any car chase, sword fight, or knock-down, drag-out fight. A simple thing, yes, but one well worth a valiant battle.

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All the world’s a Hooters in this sharp look at sisterhood from writer-director Andrew Bujalski

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Andrew Bujalski's latest focuses on sisterhood among the waitresses at a Hooters-like bar.

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Regina Hall shines in rambling truck-stop indie Support the Girls

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“Support the Girls” is one of the sneakiest bait-and-switches at the movies this year. You come for the cheeky title and stay for the relevant, empathetic story about working-class women.

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Maybe it wouldn’t be so confusing if what passed as the film’s “resolution” involved something more than the antics of bratty anarchy. It’s impossible to support the girls on such shaky ground.

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