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NUMBERS
Box Office: $13,434,906
VHS Rentals: $1,420,000
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CONSENSUS
With its tired premise, Juwanna Mann's jokes fall flat.
CAST & CREW
Miguel A. Nunez, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak
Directed by Jesse Vaughan
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SYNOPSIS
Jamal Jeffries (Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.) is the star player for pro basketball team the Charlotte Beat, until his out-of-control behavior gets him fired, and no other team will take him. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, for language and sex-related material
RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 21, 2002
Video: Nov 19, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Juwanna Mann Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "This limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's Tootsie, forgetting only to retain a single laugh."
-- Robert Wilonsky, NEW TIMES
"You cannot guess why the cast and crew didn’t sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
""Juwanna Mann?" No thanks. Wewannour money back, actually."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The premise itself is just SOOOOO tired. Pair that with really poor comedic writing...and you've got a huge mess."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"A feeble Tootsie knockoff."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"A drag in more ways than one...'Juwanna' skip this miserable
'Tootsie' knockoff."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"It has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and R&B names and references."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"There is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"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."
-- Charles Savage, MIAMI HERALD
"This mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"Has a long and clunky ending ... which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence"
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"...about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
"Nearly every attempt at humor here is DOA."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"The entire movie is filled with deja vu moments."
-- Diana Veiga, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"A tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"What a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is!"
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
 "On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms, this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny."
-- Steve Simels, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"'Wouldn’t it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it’s like on the other side of the bra?'"
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"Unsurprisingly, the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers, instead of serious athletes."
-- Noreen Sait, POPMATTERS
"About the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience’s meat grinder one more time."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"Some Like It Hot on the Hardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny."
-- Jonathan R. Perry, TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH (TEXAS)
"As predictable as the outcome of a Globetrotters-Generals game, Juwanna Mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre, and a personal low for everyone involved."
-- Bill Pearis, CITYSEARCH
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ROTTEN 10%
Avg. Rating: 3.6/10 |
"This flat run at a hip-hop Tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines."
-- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE
"It's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script."
-- Rasmi Simhan, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A lot of talent is wasted in this crass, low-wattage endeavor."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"A sloppy, amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Simplistic, silly and tedious."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"You can thank me for this. I saw Juwanna Mann so you don't have to."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines ... there just isn't much to laugh at."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"Flat, misguided comedy."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"The title, alone, should scare any sane person away."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
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"It's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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