Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.
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- 3 wins & 14 nominations
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- Michael
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- TriviaWhen Dominic (Michael Ealy) talks to the guys about the movie For Colored Girls (2010), he says the psycho drops his kids out of the window. Ealy played the character who did just that in the movie.
- GoofsCandace answers Michael's phone, "Michael Atwater's phone". His last name is Hanover.
- Crazy creditsThe screen gems logo transitions into the rain forest films logo, which transitions into the opening credits of the movie.
- ConnectionsFeatured in John Legend Feat. Ludacris: Tonight (Best You Ever Had) (2012)
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More an Ode to Steve Harvey than a real Movie
Excruciatingly bad. That's my takeaway from this movie. As other critics have stated, this is just one big infomercial for Steve Harvey's book. I will go a step further and say it's a big ol' "that-a-boy" from Steve to himself. Gag me now.
The plot is non-existent. The "movie" is just an array of vignettes that sloppily intersect and form silly lessons from the "great one" (Harvey) about relationships. The characters are just there. There is no real development except the trite, predictable "I see the light now" that brings the manufactured happy endings to each vignette. The writing is HORRIBLE. The production is low-budget. The list goes on of things that make this "movie" forgettable.
However,there are small but significant peeps of light through the otherwise dark cloud that is this ode to Harvey. The all-star cast tries really hard and sometimes succeeds at making this horrible script entertaining. I will highlight Michael Ealy's character as a ray of sunshine. The combination of his looks including those piercing eyes and his acting chops make his character appealing and dreamy, despite his being mismatched with the older-looking Taraji Henson. Gabrielle Union does a decent job with her character and she and her beau have the most interesting, believable story line of the movie. The numerous cameos would be kind of cute if they didn't leave you with the impression that their inclusion is just yet another way for "the great one" to show he is "somebody" and that he "knows people." I digress as I find myself getting back to the negative even in the paragraph I had reserved to show the few positives of the movie.
Bottom line, this is an ego-driven "I love myself" fest of Steve Harvey. I am wholly disappointed in the Rainforest crew who produced it, as I thought they would have grown more in their movie-making than they have apparently. They are still putting out low-budget, poorly-constructed films. It seems the only difference is that they are getting paid more now to do so. It's a shame. They had the opportunity to make this movie a quality movie. It could have been so much more than it was.
You will not regret skipping this movie.
The plot is non-existent. The "movie" is just an array of vignettes that sloppily intersect and form silly lessons from the "great one" (Harvey) about relationships. The characters are just there. There is no real development except the trite, predictable "I see the light now" that brings the manufactured happy endings to each vignette. The writing is HORRIBLE. The production is low-budget. The list goes on of things that make this "movie" forgettable.
However,there are small but significant peeps of light through the otherwise dark cloud that is this ode to Harvey. The all-star cast tries really hard and sometimes succeeds at making this horrible script entertaining. I will highlight Michael Ealy's character as a ray of sunshine. The combination of his looks including those piercing eyes and his acting chops make his character appealing and dreamy, despite his being mismatched with the older-looking Taraji Henson. Gabrielle Union does a decent job with her character and she and her beau have the most interesting, believable story line of the movie. The numerous cameos would be kind of cute if they didn't leave you with the impression that their inclusion is just yet another way for "the great one" to show he is "somebody" and that he "knows people." I digress as I find myself getting back to the negative even in the paragraph I had reserved to show the few positives of the movie.
Bottom line, this is an ego-driven "I love myself" fest of Steve Harvey. I am wholly disappointed in the Rainforest crew who produced it, as I thought they would have grown more in their movie-making than they have apparently. They are still putting out low-budget, poorly-constructed films. It seems the only difference is that they are getting paid more now to do so. It's a shame. They had the opportunity to make this movie a quality movie. It could have been so much more than it was.
You will not regret skipping this movie.
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- Also known as
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $91,547,205
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $33,636,303
- Apr 22, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $96,070,507
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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