White Chicks

White Chicks
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKeenen Ivory Wayans
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Shawn Wayans
  • Marlon Wayans
Produced by
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Shawn Wayans
  • Marlon Wayans
  • Rick Alvarez
  • Lee R. Mayes
Starring
CinematographySteven Bernstein
Edited by
Music byTeddy Castellucci
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing[2]
Release date
  • June 23, 2004 (2004-06-23)
Running time
109 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$37 million[4]
Box office$113.1 million[4]

White Chicks is a 2004 American 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]

  1. ^ a b Chito Childs, Erica (June 16, 2009). Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 193. ISBN 978-0742565418.
  2. ^ a b "White Chicks". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "White Chicks (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "White Chicks (2004)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  5. ^ a b McGregor, Nesta (March 14, 2016). "White Chicks creator Marlon Wayans says he's up for making a sequel". BBC. Retrieved November 17, 2020. Slowly though, the film has become a cult classic thanks to its larger than life characters.
  6. ^ Wang, Lydia (July 3, 2019). "Dust Off Your Vanessa Carlton CD Because A White Chicks 2 Is Happening". Refinery29. Retrieved November 17, 2020. It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since the Wayans brothers brought us the 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.
  7. ^ Noronha, Remus (July 4, 2019). "After Terry Crews' claim on 'White Chicks 2', Marlon Wayans dashes hopes of sequel with Insta post". Meaww. Retrieved November 17, 2020. In the 15 years since its release, 'White Chicks' gained a cult following and became a pop culture phenomenon.