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Directed by | Keenen Ivory Wayans |
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Cinematography | Steven Bernstein |
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Music by | Teddy Castellucci |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing[2] |
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Running time | 109 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $37 million[4] |
Box office | $113.1 million[4] |
White Chicks (stylized as WHiTE CHiCKS) is a 2004 American buddy cop crime comedy film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay co-written by Wayans, Xavier Cook, Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden, with additional contributions by and starring Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans. It also stars Jaime King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, and John Heard. In the film, two black male FBI agents go undercover as white women by using whiteface to protect two hotel heiresses from a kidnapping plot targeting socialites.
Principal photography for White Chicks took place in Chilliwack and Victoria in British Columbia, and in The Hamptons in New York. It was theatrically released in the United States on June 23, 2004. The film received generally negative reviews upon release,[5] and was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture. It grossed over $113.1 million worldwide,[4] and has since come to be regarded as a cult classic.[5][6][7]
Slowly though, the film has become a cult classic thanks to its larger than life characters.
It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since the Wayans brothers brought us the romantic comedy cult classic White Chicks, but it sounds like Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and their alter egos Kevin and Marcus Copeland, and their alter egos Brittany and Tiffany Wilson) will all be returning to the big screen.
In the 15 years since its release, 'White Chicks' gained a cult following and became a pop culture phenomenon.