Genre: Comedy, Suspense, Farce
Tagline: Protecting witnesses is a challenge. Living with them is impossible.
Plot: A by-the-book Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) tracks down a key informant with the help of an ex-con turned preacher Percy Stevens (Cedric The Entertainer). But when the informant is offed, the hard-headed Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the crime – a group of University of Texas cheerleaders – by going undercover and moving in with the five uncontrollable college coeds.For a guy used to ducking bullets and confronting heavily armed drug dealers, he’s now up to his elbows in poms-poms.
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 90 minutes with a few routine chase sequences but without a single laugh represents a poor way to spend a looooooong evening....the film fails in so many ways that it's impossible to imagine it getting more than a handful of positive reviews  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The one aspect of “Man of the House” that is worthy of notice is Vanessa Ferlito, who portrays the tough, sarcastic cheerleader...  --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
``Man of the House'' never gets too obnoxious or embarrassing, but it never gets all that amusing or interesting, either. Is a scene in which a man buys tampons at a supermarket still supposed to be funny? Was it ever?  --Paul Sherman
... Man of the House fails to deliver much exciting action or laugh-out-loud comedy.--Betty Jo Tucker
Watching the movie, you'll feel really dirty.  --Debra Birnbaum (New York Post)
Man of the House isn't even worth Tommy Lee Jones' dry humor, or the cheerleaders' very oogle-able figures. It's stupid, lazy entertainment that was doomed the moment the writers put ink to paper. --Jack Moore (The Movie Insider)
None of the few who attended an opening day performance laughed audibly even once. And they probably didn't know they'd selected the best picture of a particularly bad batch of newcomers.  --Ed Blank
It establishes a good comedic premise, uses it well enough for 15 minutes or so ... and then finds it has another 30 minutes to kill before it's time to get back to the "action" part of the film, where the bad guys come after the cheerleaders C--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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| Directed by |
Stephen Herek
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, 101 Dalmatians, Mr. Holland's Opus |
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| Written by |
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Intolerable Cruelty, Life, Destiny Turns on the Radio | |
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 | Monica Keena
Freddy vs. Jason, While You Were Sleeping, Brooklyn Rules |
 | Anne Archer
Felon, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games |
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 | Liz Vassey
Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, Pursuit of Happiness |
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| Music By |
David Newman
Serenity, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Ice Age |
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