‘One of them Days’ is ‘One of them Films’ where everything for the central duo goes awry. And here it is Dreux (Keke Palmer) a waitress at a diner looking to have her own franchise and who shares an apartment with her bestie Alyssa ( the singer SZA) a talented painter who’s allowed her waster boyfriend, a seemingly indefinite rent free stay. Dreux and Alyssa live from payslip to payslip, month to month and it’s set to get worse when the landlord comes for their overdue rent with a deadline of 6pm after which he’ll evict them. It’s only then that Dreux finds that Alyssa left the money with her grifter of a boyfriend to pay the rent but instead took it as an opportunity to invest in flammable fake Gucci T-shirts. With the countdown to eviction having begun the pair now go looking for him and with all the inevitability of Meghan Markle starting a new business, its destined to go South.
What follows is a series of intended comic episodes including a murderous gang leader, a payday loan company, a blood donor scheme, a rare pair of trainers, a job interview and a violently vengeful new girlfriend. Nearly all of these scenes culminate in the expected disaster without any twists or spins on a cliché. From a first feature film script by Syreeta Singleton whose previous has been TV series this relies a little too much on black stereotypes ( even the well endowed black man trope makes an appearance to no comic effect whatsoever). And therein lies its main problem because the script does need punching up with decent gags and one liners instead of the often lame sets ups – a the denouement of a scene at a blood bank is queasy rather than quirky and the pay offs for all the scenes can be seen a mile away.
But what does raise One of them days is the central duo of Keke Palmer and SZA who have a great on screen chemistry with Palmer edging it on the screen appeal front and another outing for the pair would not go amiss given better material to work with.
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Here’s the One of them Days trailer……
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