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	Juwanna Mann
	Jesse Vaughan Miguel A. Nuñez Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans, Ginuwine, Lil' Kim 2002		You wanna tip? Avoid "Juwanna Mann." It's an overdone, unfunny movie starring Miguel A. Nuñez Jr. as Jamal, a rowdy, girl-chasing jerk of a basketball player who's tossed out of pro hoops for unsportsmanlike conduct. So he dons wig, makeup and women's clothing and joins an all-gal league as "Juwanna." But he falls in love with a teammate (Vivica A. Fox), and, after gender-confused hi-jinks, he becomes a better man by having experienced what it's like to be a woman. Yep, it's "Dunkin' Tootsie." Obvious jokes include the brain-dead "playa" who gets the hots for "Juwanna," like Joe E. Brown's yen for the cross-dressed Jack Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot." Let's put it this way: The sight of Nuñez prancing around in drag won't make anybody forget Dustin Hoffman donning a frock in "Tootsie." You'd think that Nuñez would've looked at his predecessors-in-drag and turned in his falsies and heels before a single scene was shot. With Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans, Ginuwine and Lil' Kim.