'Girls Trip' Earns Biggest Opening Weekend For A Live-Action Comedy

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The film has had the largest opening weekend for a live-action comedy so far this year.

Girls Trip earned $30.371 million on its debut weekend, coming in second behind Christopher Nolan's World War II drama Dunkirk. Girls Trip, which features an ensemble cast made up of Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, and Jada Pinkett-Smith, has surpassed other R-rated comedies released this year, including Amy Schumer's Snatched and the Scarlett Johansson-led ensemble comedy Rough Night, with the film having the largest opening weekend for a live-action comedy so far in 2017.

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Our very own Thembisa Mshaka wrote about the film, saying:

The unique, unbreakable bond among black women friends is explored beautifully and hilariously. From their #ProfessionalBlackGirl banter about hair and wardrobe to the college dance routines that live in their bones despite years of dormancy, Girls Trip illuminates the bonds that are the norm among black women—not the ones forged by racism and sexism as in Hidden Figures, or by culpability as with the women of Set It Off. The sting of a falling out, the hurt felt by the group when one sells herself short, the overflow of joy that comes from supporting one another, all dynamics usually reserved for white women in buddy films from Thelma and Louise to Bridesmaids. This is all the peaks and valleys of friendship without spirits being broken and souls being burdened and dammit, we deserve to see it larger than life so we can revel in it, and so others can witness it.

This should go without saying but go and support Girls Trip and allow directors to create more films that star black women.