Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 04/07/2006(USA)
Release Date: 08/22/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
A woman makes it her business to convince the world that bigger is better in this
comedy.
Jazmin Biltmore (
Mo'Nique) is a plus-size woman trying to find a place in the skin-and-bones world of high fashion.
Jazmin has her heart set on launching her own line of clothes for large ladies, but she hasn't had much luck convincing the moneymen that there's a market for her work.
Jazmin is also looking for love, but she finds that few men are willing to look past her dress size and see the woman within.
Jazmin is becoming despondent when she gets some good news -- she's won an all-expenses paid trip for two to an exclusive resort in Palm Springs, and she and her best friend,
Stacey (
Kendra C. Johnson), another zaftig woman, head out to enjoy some fun and sun. While on vacation,
Jazmin meets
Tunde (
Jimmy Jean-Louis), a handsome and successful doctor from Nigeria, and she discovers to her surprise that
Tunde is strongly attracted to her.
Tunde tells
Jazmin than in his country, large women are considered beautiful, and his friend
Akibo (
Godfrey) is similarly drawn to
Stacey. Will
Jazmin's new luck in love follow into other parts of her life or is
Tunde's interest in her just a passing fancy?
Phat Girlz was the first feature film from writer and director
Nnegest Likké.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
