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- 2002
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Summary The story of a professional basketball player who blows his career but gets a chance to bounce back by trading his jock strap for a sports bra. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Jesse Vaughan
Written By: Bradley Allenstein
- 2002
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Juwanna Mann
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2.4
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Summary The story of a professional basketball player who blows his career but gets a chance to bounce back by trading his jock strap for a sports bra. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Jesse Vaughan
Written By: Bradley Allenstein
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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8% Positive
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20% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
72% Negative
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
24
8% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
72% Negative
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
Here's a truly novel sports film: It actually has a script, decent acting, sympathetic characters. And it's fun.
Comic Tommy Davidson, in particular, is hilarious as gangsta rapper Puff Smokey Smoke, who falls for Juwanna and then, in a twist lifted directly from the queen of all drag farces, 1959's "Some Like It Hot," decides he still loves her after she's exposed as Jamal. After all, nobody's perfect.
It is Kevin Pollak who steals what there is of a show as Jamal's passive-aggressive, pressure-cooked agent. His comedic timing, particularly given the thinness of the script, is the only genuinely impressive slam dunk this movie has to offer.
A postseason basketball comedy that shoots and misses at a rate that would embarrass even the Los Angeles Clippers.
When the outtakes at the end don't make you laugh, what does that tell you about the movie that preceded them?
If this sounds like "Tootsie" with a ball, well, it is. Screenwriter Bradley Allenstein should be hauled up in writer's court for his shameless cribbing of that far superior comedy. Someone call a foul.
A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
2.4
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
2.4
0% Positive
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33% Mixed
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67% Negative
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Production Company
Morgan Creek Entertainment,
O Entertainment,
Talent One
Release Date Jun 21, 2002
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The only way he can stay pro, is to play (like) a girl.
Website
http://www.juwannamann.com/
Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
