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Tim Meadows, Tiffani Thiessen, Karyn Parsons

Over the years, Tim Meadows has proven himself to be a very funny supporting player on Saturday Night Live, but he never really had a breakout character that he and Lorne Micheals could spin of...( read more  read more... )f into a movie--until now. Based on his lisping "Ladies Man" character, Meadows plays Leon Phelps, a late-night sex advice host of a radio show who gets fired for racking up one too many FCC fines. His producer (Karyn Parsons) gets fired with him, and she combs the Chicago stations looking for another gig while he tries to find the one old flame who would be willing to support him for the rest of his life. You see, Phelps is a sexaholic who tends to sleep with frustrated wives, much to the chagrin of the husbands who inevitably catch them in bed together. A mob of husbands have formed a group, under the leadership of Will Ferrell (playing a tired stereotype of the closeted homosexual), dedicated to hunting down Phelps and killing him. The embodiment of the '70s swinger, Phelps personifies both the good (sexual skills) and the bad (the wardrobe and fashion sense) of that icon, though the movie ends with your standard pro-family propaganda when he inevitably finds love and stability with his producer. The laughs do not come fast and furiously, sidetracked as they are by the so-called plot, but one thing must be said and said out loud: Billy Dee Williams is fantastic as the bartender-narrator. --Andy Spletzer

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Reginald Hudlin

Release Date: October 13, 2000

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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001

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Flixster Reviews (685)

  • sanjurosamurai
    November 23, 2007
    sanjurosamurai
    one of the 2 or 3 funniest movies ever made, but just too crude to justify
  • YosemiteSamFan
    October 25, 2007
    YosemiteSamFan
    This movie was a lot of fun. I liked Tim Meadows' "Ladies Man" character.
  • RashHunt
    February 2, 2007
    RashHunt
    This movie blows chunks, and Meadows simply can't handle a lead role. His best roles are usually his eccentric and angry cameos as found in SNL, and here his smooth talking robot of a role can barely muster up a single laugh.
  • cartersimo
    January 8, 2007
    cartersimo
    i thought it was just crappy with a couple of laughs but wouldn't watch it again.
  • LisaMJ
    April 20, 2007
    LisaMJ
    Ridiculous.
  • RachelJezel
    September 14, 2009
    RachelJezel
    Good god this movie is so dumb. But also, quite funny.
  • samanthaseaotter
    July 28, 2009
    samanthaseaotter
    One joke, overdone. Tim Meadows is better than that.
  • McCorpse
    June 30, 2009
    McCorpse
    really funny stuff. Would recommend it if you liked deuce bigalow. Just as good if not better.
  • psyclock7
    June 15, 2009
    psyclock7
    Loved it when the baby had an afro too...Strange
  • helwigs
    June 5, 2009
    helwigs
    It was funny for at least one time around.

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January 1, 2000
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

For what it is, a 90-minute spinoff of a Saturday Night Live sketch, Reginald Hudlin's film The Ladies Man is not bad. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Desperately unfunny. full review

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