Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Film / SupportTheGirls

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:


Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Hooters-type [[FanServiceWithASmile "breastaurant"]] where she's become protective over its young employees, including Maci (Creator/HaleyLuRichardson) and Danyelle (Shayna [=McHayle=]).

to:

Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) (Creator/ReginaHall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Hooters-type [[FanServiceWithASmile "breastaurant"]] where she's become protective over its young employees, including Maci (Creator/HaleyLuRichardson) and Danyelle (Shayna [=McHayle=]).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Hooters-type [[FanServiceWithASmile "breastaurant"]] where she's become protective over its young employees, including Maci (Haley Lu Richardson) and Danyelle (Shayna [=McHayle=]).

to:

Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Hooters-type [[FanServiceWithASmile "breastaurant"]] where she's become protective over its young employees, including Maci (Haley Lu Richardson) (Creator/HaleyLuRichardson) and Danyelle (Shayna [=McHayle=]).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Maci is not the professor's student, and Lisa is still married even if going through separation


* AmicableExes: Lisa and her ex-husband aren't exactly best friends, but they're working through their divorce as civilly as possible, with her even helping him find a new place to live.

to:

* AmicableExes: Lisa and is going through a separation with her ex-husband husband so they aren't exactly best friends, but they're working through their divorce it as civilly as possible, with her even helping him find a new place to live.



* BrandX: Double Whammies is an obvious stand-in for Hooters.

to:

* BrandX: Double Whammies is an obvious stand-in for Hooters.Hooters, although it's just one location rather than a chain.



* MayDecemberRomance / TeacherStudentRomance: Maci is in a relationship with her ''much'' older teacher.

to:

* MayDecemberRomance / TeacherStudentRomance: MayDecemberRomance: Maci is in a relationship with her the ''much'' older teacher."Professor".



* StrugglingSingleMother: Lisa and Danyelle both, but Danyelle is shown dealing with that aspect more than Lisa.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Lisa, Maci, and Danyelle have quit their jobs and applied to work for Double Whammies' main competitor]].

to:

* StrugglingSingleMother: Lisa and Danyelle both, but Danyelle is shown dealing with that aspect more than Lisa.
brings her son to the restaurant because she didn't have anyone to look after him, another waitress (who can't work the same shift as her because they're both black) picks him up to babysit.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Lisa, Maci, and Danyelle have quit their jobs and applied to work for Double Whammies' main competitor]]. Lisa is also a mom, but her kids are grown and have moved out while her husband has not (despite her best efforts to get him to).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* AllForNothing: Lisa's job troubles start when she bends the rules to fundraise for legal help for Shaina after she hits her JerkAss boyfriend with her car. [[spoiler:She later discovers that Shaina has gotten back together with him and plan to use the money for his hospital bills, leaving her infuriated and demanding the money back.]]

to:

* AllForNothing: Lisa's job troubles start when she bends the rules to fundraise for legal help for Shaina after she hits her JerkAss boyfriend with her car. [[spoiler:She later discovers that Shaina has gotten back together with him and plan to use the money for his hospital bills, leaving her infuriated and demanding the money back. In the same scene, she learns that her husband has moved out right after she quit to spend more time with him and work on their relationship.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added: 877

Changed: 101

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* AllForNothing: Lisa's job troubles start when she bends the rules to fundraise for legal help for Shaina after she hits her JerkAss boyfriend with her car. [[spoiler:She later discovers that Shaina has gotten back together with him and plan to use the money for his hospital bills, leaving her infuriated and demanding the money back.]]



* CatharticScream: The film ends with Lisa, Maci and Danyelle yelling their lungs out above a highway.
* CurbStompBattle: After Cubby is cut off while driving, he follows the man to his house in an attempt to confront him and is taken down with one punch.



* InsistentTerminology: Double Whammies is a ''family restaurant.''



* MarriedToTheJob: It's suggested that Lisa has this kind of relationship to her work, with her marriage failing partially because of it.

to:

* MarriedToTheJob: It's suggested that Lisa has this kind of relationship to her work, with her marriage failing partially because of it. When one of the girls references this by name, Lisa is pretty uncomfortable with the implications.



* NoEnding: [[spoiler:The professional future of Lisa, Danyelle and Maci is up in the air at the end of the film, as well as Lisa's future with her ex.]]



* SliceOfLife: Just a day in the life of a "breastaurant" worker.



* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Lisa, Maci, and Daynelle have quit their jobs and applied to work for Double Whammies' main competitor]].

to:

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Lisa, Maci, and Daynelle Danyelle have quit their jobs and applied to work for Double Whammies' main competitor]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/support_the_girls.jpg]]
%% [[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]

''Support the Girls'' is a 2018 {{work com}}edy written and directed by Andrew Bujalski (''Film/ComputerChess'').

Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the general manager of Double Whammies, a Hooters-type [[FanServiceWithASmile "breastaurant"]] where she's become protective over its young employees, including Maci (Haley Lu Richardson) and Danyelle (Shayna [=McHayle=]).

Over the course of a single day, Lisa's resolve is tested through a series of hardships and inconveniences that bring her life choices into doubt -- is this ''really'' what she wants? [[Music/AlyAndAJ AJ Michalka]], Creator/BrooklynDecker, Creator/JamesLeGros, Dylan Gelula (''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt''), and Lea [=DeLaria=] (''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'') also star.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp-8oB53P7k Trailer]].

----
!! ''Support the Tropes:''
* TheAllegedBoss / PointyHairedBoss: Cubby is portrayed as an exceedingly incompetent boss.
* AmicableExes: Lisa and her ex-husband aren't exactly best friends, but they're working through their divorce as civilly as possible, with her even helping him find a new place to live.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Lisa is essentially this to Cubby, who owns the place. She receives the brunt of the work in running the place, while he's barely ever around.
* BrandX: Double Whammies is an obvious stand-in for Hooters.
* ButchLesbian: Regular patron Bobo.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The bulk of the film takes place within a single day.
* FanserviceWithASmile: Double Whammies is a prototypical "breastaurant" where the waitresses are scantily clad, though Lisa asserts it's a family-friendly place in spite of it.
* FirstDayFromHell: For the new hires, they haven't come to work at Double Whammies on its best day.
* HiredForTheirLooks: It's no secret why any of the waitresses have been hired.
* MamaBear / TeamMom: Old enough to act as a motherly surrogate to her young subordinates, Lisa is the glue that holds Double Whammies together -- and don't you ''dare'' come for them.
* MarriedToTheJob: It's suggested that Lisa has this kind of relationship to her work, with her marriage failing partially because of it.
* MayDecemberRomance / TeacherStudentRomance: Maci is in a relationship with her ''much'' older teacher.
* NaiveNewcomer: Jennelle and the other new hires.
* SingleMomStripper: Downplayed, since Danyelle isn't a ''literal'' stripper, but she may as well be one given the job.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Lisa and Danyelle both, but Danyelle is shown dealing with that aspect more than Lisa.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Lisa, Maci, and Daynelle have quit their jobs and applied to work for Double Whammies' main competitor]].
* TeenPregnancy: Danyelle had her child while still in high school.
* TheThreeFacesofEve: Lisa is the wife, Danyelle is the seductress, and Maci is the child.
* TokenMinority: Invoked and discussed. Danyelle is the only black girl who works during her shift, because Cubby doesn't allow for more than one at a time. Same for Latinas.
* WorkCom: Set almost entirely within Double Whammies, with some exceptions.
----

Top