Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina
Hall, Tiffany Haddish
Director: Malcolm Lee
There’s plenty of star power behind “Girls Trip,” including always-bankable director Malcolm D.
Lee and big names like Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith, but the film’s biggest breakout
belongs to relative newcomer Tiffany Haddish, who makes off with not only the comedy’s best
lines and bits of physical humor, but its most eye-popping performance. Best known to
mainstream audiences for her work on “Keanu” and “The Carmichael Show,” Haddish has been
working steadily since 2005, but “Girls Trip” seems destined to launch her into the big time (it
doesn’t hurt that she’s also got her first stand-up special teed up for an August debut on
Showtime). And it should, because she’s