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| Director
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Stephen Herek |
| Starring
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Tommy Lee Jones, Christina
Milian,
Kelli Garner |
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| The plot of
Man of the House |
Hardened
FBI veteran Roland Sharp (Jones) must co-habitate
with a group of dysfunctional cheerleaders who
witnessed a murder. |
| Man of the
House Movie Review |
Reviewed by
haro-online.com :
This is going to sound horrible - Man of the House was
fun. Granted, it was fun for what it was, and it had
extremely low aspirations as a movie. The premise is
that an alpha male Texas Ranger needs to protect five
girly-girl cheerleaders. Tommy Lee Jones (The Missing,
The Hunted) good naturedly mocks his tough guy persona
by playing Roland Sharp, and it is fun watching a bunch
of girls get the better of him. At the same time, it
feels a little dirty watching these five young actresses,
Paula Garces, Christian Milian, Vanessa Ferlito, Monica
Keena, and Kelli Garner, strut around in next to nothing.
All of them are relatively new in their careers, and
none have anything substantial in their resumes, and
it's hard to see any of them growing as serious actors
in the future. Heck, after seeing Ferlito (Spider-Man
2) in On_Line, it's hard to take her seriously.
more..
Review By MaryAnn
Johanson :
If you've ever dreamed of the many ways in
which, say, rugged tough guy Tommy Lee Jones could be
emasculated, your dream has come true. Confrontation
with yards of lacy, sexy lingerie hanging in the shower?
Check. Confusion in the "feminine products"
aisle of the supermarket? Oh, you know it. More..
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten :
Silly and implausible, Man of the House has a tenuous
relationship with anything we recognize as the real
world, even keeping in mind that this is a comedy and
not a real cop drama. The film’s relationship
to Texas, however, is strong, and it’s likely
to be warmly welcomed in the Lone Star State, where
a goofy story about a Texas Ranger and the UT cheerleaders
he is sworn to protect is what we like to watch anyway,
albeit with a bit more football. Filmed here in Austin
and on the UT campus (by director Herek, a former UT
student), Man of the House has the feel of a home-grown
affair, as lots of locations and businesses from Threadgill’s
to Mangia Pizza are given their due in the storyline.
more..
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