Every shift, breastaurant manager Lisa (an outstanding Regina Hall) tries to stay perky.
The title of Andrew Bujalski’s big-hearted comedy “Support the Girls” winks at the waitresses’ hoisted money-makers and the hardest part of Lisa’s job: tending to her busty, fragile employees.
Whose smile is fading, whose kid is sick, who just put her abusive boyfriend in the hospital, and who’s crying cause a biker just called her fat.
Double Whammies’ Rule No.
1, “No Drama” with all-caps emphasis, goes ignored, especially by its screaming, bullying owner Cubby (James Le Gros), a tyrant with a wimpy mustache, who forces Lisa to obey his Rainbow Policy of scheduling only one black woman per shift.Hall’s pragmatic, but unforgiving response to the racist rule is a 200-proof distillation of Bujalski’s toast to working-class women who make the best of bad options.
Sure, the ladies are the supposed stars
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