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.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations
Terrence Jenkins
- Michael
- (as Terrence J)
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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)
- SoundtracksIt's A Man's, Man's, Man's World
Written by James Brown and Betty Newsome
Performed by James Brown
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Featured review
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy." Henry Kissinger
From early literature, at the very least Chaucer, the war between the sexes has been a topic of the best writers, notably Shakespeare in his Taming of the Shrew, among others.
Now Think Like a Man, based on Steve Harvey's best-selling Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, takes the topic for a modern spin, and a pleasant one at times, at other times just too long. The boys, really grown men but film prefers to keep them like adolescents for as long as possible, have varying degrees of difficulties with their women. The film has arranged the tale in episodes that feature each type, e.g., mama's boy, non-committer, and the player. The ladies have a secret weapon to win the engagement ring prize--the book, Act Like a Woman, Think Like a Man, promoted by a smarmy talk show host played by Harvey himself.
Such tips as making a suitor wait for 90 days before sex and increasing standards are among the many strategies that help the women deal with intractable male slacking and avoidance. The episodes are sometimes funny and all devoid of scatological surprises as have come to be common in modern male-centered Hangover and Bridesmaids comedies.
It's not just the absence of crudity that makes this a pleasant film; it's that at times it has respect for the adults absent in comedies of late. Sure, the film has caddish men and pushy women, but they have a civility that sets them apart from the rest of the contemporary comedy scenes. Cedric Kevin Hart) is not classy but as the manic divorced one with stories to tell, he serves to keep the plodding sermonizing from sinking the film.
When the men learn about the book and turn that knowledge into weapon, the film gets interesting. After that strategy gets its challenge, the rest of the film trails off lamely into another Shakespearean observation: all's well that ends well.
From early literature, at the very least Chaucer, the war between the sexes has been a topic of the best writers, notably Shakespeare in his Taming of the Shrew, among others.
Now Think Like a Man, based on Steve Harvey's best-selling Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, takes the topic for a modern spin, and a pleasant one at times, at other times just too long. The boys, really grown men but film prefers to keep them like adolescents for as long as possible, have varying degrees of difficulties with their women. The film has arranged the tale in episodes that feature each type, e.g., mama's boy, non-committer, and the player. The ladies have a secret weapon to win the engagement ring prize--the book, Act Like a Woman, Think Like a Man, promoted by a smarmy talk show host played by Harvey himself.
Such tips as making a suitor wait for 90 days before sex and increasing standards are among the many strategies that help the women deal with intractable male slacking and avoidance. The episodes are sometimes funny and all devoid of scatological surprises as have come to be common in modern male-centered Hangover and Bridesmaids comedies.
It's not just the absence of crudity that makes this a pleasant film; it's that at times it has respect for the adults absent in comedies of late. Sure, the film has caddish men and pushy women, but they have a civility that sets them apart from the rest of the contemporary comedy scenes. Cedric Kevin Hart) is not classy but as the manic divorced one with stories to tell, he serves to keep the plodding sermonizing from sinking the film.
When the men learn about the book and turn that knowledge into weapon, the film gets interesting. After that strategy gets its challenge, the rest of the film trails off lamely into another Shakespearean observation: all's well that ends well.
- JohnDeSando
- Apr 19, 2012
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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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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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