Juwanna Mann (2002)
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10% of critics liked it
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43% of users liked it
(8,167 ratings)
It's Big Momma's House on the three-point line in this broad farce, which marks the leading man/woman debut of longtime character actor Miguel A. Nunez. Nunez stars as Jamal Jefferies, a hotheaded pro basketball player whose on-court antics and quick temper get him booted from the league… More It's Big Momma's House on the three-point line in this broad farce, which marks the leading man/woman debut of longtime character actor Miguel A. Nunez. Nunez stars as Jamal Jefferies, a hotheaded pro basketball player whose on-court antics and quick temper get him booted from the league altogether. Faster than you can say Dennis Rodman, Jamal has transformed himself into the busty Juwanna Mann in order to be a forward for a high-intensity team in the WUBA league, the Charlotte Banshees. Behind the doors of the womens' lockerroom, Jamal unexpectedly falls for Michelle Langford (Vivica A. Fox), the team's no-nonsense captain. But prosthetic breasts and false eyelashes aren't the only thing preventing Jamal from finding true love with Michelle: there's also the problem of her aggressive, two-timing boyfriend, Romeo (Ginuwine), not to mention the unwanted advances Juwanna gets from a skanky rapper named Puff Smokey Smoke (Tom Davidson). ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jesse Vaughan
- Written By
- Bradley Allenstein
- Genres
- Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Jun 18, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
Critic Reviews
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Ted Shen, Chicago Reader
The idea of transposing the story to the macho, greedy world of big-time sports is promising, but director Jesse Vaughan delivers only flat dialogue and predictable situations.
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David Germain, Associated Press
The movie is sloppily edited, the gags limply staged, the dialogue and jokes stiff and stale. Even the action on the basketball court is unimaginative and boring.
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Anna Smith, Time Out
An unpersuasive moral journey, with a smattering of laughs, that fails to justify the insulting premise that only a man can help the ladies win at both basketball and love.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A Tootsie-role sports farce that's a drag in every which way.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Simplistic, silly and tedious.
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Cast
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Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
as Jamal Jeffries/Juwanna Mann
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Vivica A. Fox
as Michelle Langford
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Kevin Pollak
as Lorne Daniels
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Tommy Davidson
as Puff Smokey Smoke
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Kim Wayans
as Latisha Jansen
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Jenifer Lewis
as Aunt Ruby
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Ginuwine
as Romeo
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Annie Corley
as Coach Rivers
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Tammi Reiss
as Vickie Sanchez
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Heather Quella
as Magda Rowonowitch
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Vlade Divac
as Beat Player Morse
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J. Don Ferguson
as UBA Referee
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Roy Firestone
as himself
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Mert Hatfield
as Arbitrator
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Pearl Jones
as Esther
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Jay Leno
as himself
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Terry Loughlin
as Commissioner
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Ric Reitz
as Beat Coach
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Elliott Street
as Doctor
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Judy Simpson Cook
as Nurse
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Deanna Davis
as Carla
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Cynthia Cooper
as herself
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Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones
as Tina Parker
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Kevin Frazier
as himself
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Omar J. Dorsey
as Rickey
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Lance Krall
as Asian Guy
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Angela Cossey
as Natalie Kemper
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Itoro Coleman
as Scruggs Debbie
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Bonnie Johnson
as Lorne's Secretary
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Deborah Calloway Duke
as Mable
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Tyrone "Mugsy" Bogues
as Stewart Andrew
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Dikembe Mutombo
as Arch Player Coyner
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Rasheed Wallace
as Beat Player Whitley
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Jeanne Zelasko
as herself
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Chris Myers
as Himself
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Kenny Albert
as himself
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Katy Steding
as herself
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Teresa Weatherspoon
as herself
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Reginald Coles III
as Beat Player Kerns
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Mark Allan Stewart
as City Cop
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Andrew Kenny
as Autograph Kid
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Brittani Warrick
as Young Girl
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Jaclyn Dahm
as Triplet #1
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Erica Dahm
as Triplet #2
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Nicole Dahm
as Triplet #3
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Eddie Rouse Jr.
as Moving Man
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Michael Drake
as Waiter
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Everett Summers
as WUBA Referee
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Carol Mitchell
as Betty
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