Booty Call is a 1997 American buddy comedy film directed by Jeff Pollack, and written by J. Stanford Parker (credited as Bootsie) and Takashi Bufford.

Things soon lead to all four friends being at the hospital when Bunz accidentally shoots Rushon in the leg with a gun he took from a paranoid cabbie moments earlier.

The real doctor whom Bunz is impersonating eventually surfaces which leads the admissions nurse and security to search the hospital for the group.

"[5] In his review, Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed "this contemporary sex farce, directed by Jeff Pollack, has the attention span of a hyperactive child.

"[6] Leonard Klady of Variety labelled it "oddly effective", and said "a mixed bag of street humor, broad, bawdy jokes and hip-hop music, the film is very much on target to score a bull’s-eye with African-American auds.

D'Angelo went on to write, "most of the time, the amiable foursome is left ambling aimlessly from one so-so sketch concept to the next: four characters in search of a comedy.

"[9] In a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose, black actor and filmmaker Charles S. Dutton criticized young African-Americans who went to see Booty Call rather than the historical drama Rosewood, which was released around the same time.

[10] It was later referenced in a 1999 episode of The Simpsons titled Beyond Blunderdome, where a film executive character labels a fictitious director's cut of Booty Call as "fabulous".