The sports management agency’s initials are SWM, also meaning “single white male” which describes many of Ali Davis’ co-workers, or at least the white and male part. There is a romance subplot too but it is not the main point. Gaining the ability to read her male co-workers thoughts allows Hensen’s character to out-maneuver them in the work place as well as giving her some personal insights. While the Gibson movie was more about general male cluelessness about women and romance, the gender switch takes this comedy in a different direction. WHAT MEN WANT skews chick flick, but one with more of a workplace focus than all about romance. The Gibson movie was a hit but basically standard Hollywood comedy stuff, in which a clueless man magically gains the power to read women’s thoughts and finds out what they REALLY think of him.

That bit of information shouldn’t be much of a spoiler as this comedy is a gender-reversed remake, of sorts, of the Mel Gibson film WHAT WOMEN WANT. The party’s entertainment includes a fortune teller (Erykah Badu) and the weird woman inadvertently gives Ali a strange power – to read men’s minds. While Ali obsesses about breaking that glass ceiling, she gets a distraction in the form of a bachelorette party for one of her trio of best friends. Tired of being repeatedly passed over, she is determined to sign the likely number one NBA draft pick, Jamal Barry (Shane Paul McGhie).

As the only female agent at the firm Summit Worldwide Management (SWM), she is has signed a slew of Olympic stars but has yet to sign one in pro sports. Hensen) thinks she is a sure-thing to make partner at her firm at long last but when she is passed over – again – it creates a crisis for her. Hard-working, aggressive sports agent Ali Davis (Taraji P.

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