There have been plenty of great comedic duos in movie history, from Abbott and Costello to Steve Martin and Martin Short. It’s too early to put Keke Palmer and SZA in that pantheon (it is their first movie together after all), but they are an undeniably terrific pairing in One of Them Days, the first comedy of the 2025 new movie slate that does what it sets out to do: telling a fun story of two best friends that will have you laughing throughout.
Written by Syreeta Singleton (the first screenplay for the Insecure and Rap Sh!t writer) and directed by Lawrence Lamont (another Rap Sh!t veteran making his feature directing debut), One of Them Days follows best friends and roommates Dreux (Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) as they have to travel all over their Los Angeles neighborhood to get enough money to pay their rent after Alyssa’s oblivious boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) wasted it on himself; if they don’t have it by the end of the day they’ll be evicted from their apartment. Along the way they have to deal with a range of colorful characters and dangerous gangsters.
