2019 · comedy · romance · sports
What Men Want
Directed by Adam Shankman1h 57m2019
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Our read: What Men Want (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want workplace comedy fantasy with Taraji Henson weaponizing male ego.”
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