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Ali Davis is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what more she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world, until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts. With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest to the test.

Passed up for a well-deserved promotion, sports agent Ali Davis wonders what else she needs to do to succeed in a man's world. Hoping to find answers from a psychic, Ali drinks a weird concoction that suddenly allows her to hear what men are thinking. Using her newfound ability, Ali starts to turn the tables on her obnoxious male colleagues while racing to sign the next basketball superstar.

Initial release: February 8, 2019 (USA)

Director: Adam Shankman

Screenplay: Tina Gordon Chism

Producer: Will Packer

Production companies: Paramount Players, Will Packer Productions

The original movie starred Mel Gibson as a marketing exec who suddenly has the ability to hear what women are thinking after a freak accident. In the remake, the roles are reversed, with Henson playing sports agent who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When she gains the power to hear men’s thoughts, she is able to shift the paradigm to her advantage as she races to sign the NBA’s next superstar.
The way that Adam Shankman - who’s doing a terrific job - is directing this movie falls right into Taraji’s sweet spot. She's so good at physical comedy, at comedy that is at the same time big but also emotional. She's got depth. And she's been doing dramas for so long. One of the early conversations I had with her when we were talking about this movie was, she was like, ‘I wanna laugh. I have been Cookie for so long. And in my movies, I have been like, the distressed single mom with something horrible happening to me. I just want to have some fun.’

It's the time. It's crazy that we've had such a dearth for so long that there are so many stories that have yet to be told from that perspective. And when I say that perspective, it really is an inclusive perspective, not exclusive. Not one of those movies where, like, they happen to have a black singular woman or women at the center were only for that audience. They all felt very much like universal stories but told through this lens, which I think makes them very interesting. Because we have had for years stories that were told through the lens of any number of white men and then sometimes you would get white women, and you would also get black men, but like, way down the line would you get a story that has a woman of color at the center. So I love the fact that I can be a part of that. It feels very 2019 and beyond, it feels very, like, where we are as a world.

Starting with its title, this movie must be one of the greatest examples of product placement in history. We see Steve Harvey plugging the book on a daytime talk show, and then he appears again from time to time to deliver advice straight to the audience. It's a promising device for a sitcom, especially as the film assigns the characters to categories from the book, such as "The Dreamer vs. The Woman Who Is Her Own Man." This is somewhat limiting, because each character is required to behave in a way consistent with his or her label.

“Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love—it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure. If you are her man, she will walk on water and through a mountain for you, too, no matter how you’ve acted out, no matter what crazy thing you’ve done, no matter the time or demand. If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to. And no matter what you do, no matter how many times her friends say you’re no good, no matter how many times you slam the door on the relationship, she will give you her very best and then some, and keep right on trying to win over your heart, even when you act like everything she’s done to convince you she’s The One just isn’t good enough.

I don't mind it, though. I don't mind that the bar is continuously being raised because I am--I don't hide from that, I'm a competitive person and I want to make the best content and I want audiences to receive that content. So, y’know, look, I think the bar is high for this. Taraji herself will tell you that. She really wants this to work, she really wants this to win. Everybody knows how incredibly talented she is - she hasn't done a comedy in a while. And I think people forget how funny she is. She is so on point with this, she is like big when she needs to be big, she's focused when she needs to be focused, earnest when she needs to be earnest.

But that isn't the real problem. The movie's mistake is to take the book seriously. This might have worked as a screwball comedy or a satire, but can you believe for a moment in characters naive enough to actually live their lives following Steve Harvey's advice? The result is a tiresome exercise that circles at great length through various Nevertheless, in 2009, comedian and radio host.

 Steve Harvey wrote a best-seller titled Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment. This was advice for women. It apparently left some questions, because in 2011, Harvey felt the demand for another book, Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man. A small industry had been set in motion, which inspired Maria Bustillo's Act Like a Gentleman, Think Like a Woman: A Woman's Response to Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man (2009). What are Bustillo's qualifications? One month before that book, she published Dorkismo: The Macho of the Dork.