Lisa is the backbone of Double Whammies, and also of Support the Girls.
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Lisa, the general manager of a Texas sports bar called Double Whammies, spends a lot of time putting out fires.
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Support the Girls follows Lisa, a shift manager at Double Whammies, a Hooters-esque sports bar, over the course of one day.
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Lisa's biggest form of support at Double Whammies is Danyelle (Shayna McHayle, also known musically as Junglepussy), one of the few Black waitresses.
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In most movies, characters like her function as backdrop, and so do settings like Double Whammies — a neighborhood version of a place like Hooters.
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Whether the women of Double Whammies are building up a whimpering, wounded ego or escaping a dangerous situation, it's all there in Support the Girls.
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Support the Girls is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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And that mentality, Support the Girls suggests, is what keeps a place like Double Whammies (or the identical chain restaurant moving in nearby, called "Mancave") in business.
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Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the manager at a Texas sports bar that's not unlike a Hooters (it's called Double Whammies), and she's having a rough day.
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Released in August and written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, the movie stars Hall as Lisa, the general manager of a Texas sports bar "breastaurant" called Double Whammies.
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Double Whammies provides an extreme backdrop from which to explore themes of sexual harassment and empowerment that have dominated the national conversation for the last year or so.
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Most of the film stretches over one day and focuses on Lisa (Regina Hall, in an outstanding performance), the longtime Double Whammies manager whose dependability extends far beyond the workplace.
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She's the grounding force in the comedy "Support the Girls," set in a Hooters-style restaurant called Double Whammies and written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, who's based in Austin.
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Every day, the waitresses — pretty girls in crop tops and cutoffs — serve beer and wings to the mostly male clientele, though Double Whammies insists it's a family-friendly "mainstream" place.
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Every day, the bar's waitresses — pretty girls in crop tops and cutoffs — serve beer and wings to the mostly male clientele, though Double Whammies insists it's a family-friendly "mainstream" place.
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Lisa, the put-upon manager of Double Whammies, carries a very gender-specific burden: She is a caretaker writ large, supporting not just her girls in the workplace, but seemingly everywhere else too.
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Support the Girls, from writer and director Andrew Bujalski, is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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That's evident in this scene from Andrew Bujalski's latest comedy, "Support the Girls," starring Regina Hall as Lisa, who is spending the day trying to keep the peace as she manages the restaurant Double Whammies.
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Metacritic score: 85 Support the Girls, from writer and director Andrew Bujalski, is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, Support The Girls stars Regina Hall as Lisa, general manager of Double Whammies, a "boobs, brews and big screens" sports bar where the waitresses are as friendly as their midriffs are bare.
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Set in a Hooters-inspired restaurant called Double Whammies, Lisa's role as general manager requires her to manage a staff of young waitresses who have to use their sex appeal for tips without crossing the family-friendly line.
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And the hypocrisy of Double Whammies' use of female breasts and legs to lure customers while insisting that it's a "family place" is a direct reflection of the American habit of obsessing over women's sexuality while shaming them for it.
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As the day wears on toward the big fight that evening — and the increased tips that will go along with it — the girls of Double Whammies navigate problems like Lisa's, hoping to get to the end of the day and making the best of whatever situations they're handed.
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Lisa is the main character, and we follow her throughout her day, discovering that there are other male characters — notably her useless ex-husband, whom she's helping find a place to live, as well as the abusive boyfriend of a former Double Whammies waitress she's been looking after — who are slowly driving her to her breaking point.
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But where Sorry to Bother You is a wildly imaginative dance through a near-future Oakland, Support the Girls visits an unspecified, strip mall-filled city to chronicle a day in the life of the staff of Double Whammies, a Hooters-esque sports bar that caters to the fantasy of men who just want to watch the game, ogle some women, and drink a beer in peace.
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Critique in terms of current genetic research is that there are many candidates for copy number variants that may predispose a likelihood of developing schizophrenia but current research is flawed by both the sample sizes available for analysis by condition population and by an incomplete understanding of 'double whammies' where one allele affects another. "CNV 'Double Whammies' May Account for Variable Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes" This has also been referred to as genetic 'dark matter' with the notion that many rare mutations have not yet been discovered.
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The interviewer tells Lisa that ManCave waitresses are unintelligent and easily replaced. Lisa, Maci and Danyelle sit on the rooftop drinking liquor stolen from Double Whammies and contemplate their future employment before letting out cathartic screams.
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Lisa is the general manager of the sports bar and breastaurant Double Whammies. She takes her job seriously, protecting her employees from inappropriate or rude interactions with customers. Despite her commitment to the restaurant, her incompetent boss, Cubby, has repeatedly threatened to fire her. His ire is provoked when Lisa has her employees host an off-the-books car wash to raise money for an employee, Shaina, who has hit her abusive boyfriend with her car and is staying at Lisa's house.
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