Man Of The House

Starring: Christina Milian, Tommy Lee Jones Original UK Premiere: 2005 Dvd Release: 8th August, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Turkish Dubbed In: Czech, Hungarian, Polish

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Man of the House is both a 1995 film & a 2005 film. The 1995 film is a comedy starring Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett, Jonathan Taylor Thomas & George Wendt of Cheers fame is about a boy who must come to terms with his potential stepfather. The 2005 film is a comedy starring Tommy Lee Jones about a Texas Ranger who has to protect a group of cheerleaders who previously witnessed a murder. Much of the movie was shot in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas campus & also at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The movie is rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, crude humor & a drug reference.

Lets face it, sometimes you just want to watch some fluff. The ever-expanding subgenre of cheerleader cinema offers dependable fluff, of which Man of the House is a shiny, frivolous example. After a multiethnic cheerleading squad witnesses a mob execution, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect them. Thats all you need to know, a formulaic plot follows, but the filmmakers recognizes that the formula is known by all so they doesnt waste time with unnecessary exposition. Instead, we go straight to amusing scenes of Sharp teaching the unruly girls some discipline & the girls teaching Sharp to loosen up & forge a better relationship with his estranged daughter. Its a one-joke movie, but thanks to Jones leathery hound-dog face & cowpoke gravitas, the contrast between the girls & Sharp keeps being funny. Of its kind, Man of the House isnt in the same league as Bring It On , but its head & shoulders over the likes of Sugar & Spice.

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor & director from San Saba, Texas. A graduate of the St. Marks School of Texas, he attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of the future Vice President Al Gore at Dunster House & there he received a B,A. in English literature & graduated cum laude in 1969. He then moved to New York City to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway & he made his debut in Love Story. Between 1971 & 1975, he portrayed Dr Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, then he played the role of an escaped convict that was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail. In 1983 he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as Gary Gilmore in The Executioners Song. In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive costarring Harrison Ford & Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars & made him one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Posters Of Tommy Lee Jones

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