Think Like a Man Movie 2012

Movie Information

Directed by:Tim Story

Produced by:Glenn S. Gainor

Screenplay by:Keith Marryman,David A. Newman.

Based on:Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey.

Starring:Michael Ealy,Jerry Ferrara,Meagan Good,Regina Hall,Kevin Hart,Terrence J,Taraji P. Henson,

Romany Malco,Gabrielle Union.

Music by:Christopher Lennertz

Cinematography:Larry Blanford

Editing by:Peter S. Elliot

Studio:Rainforest Films

Distributed by:Sony's Screen Gems

Release Date: April 20, 2012

Running time:123 minutes

Country:United States

Language:English

Budget:$12 million

Box office:$60,868,000

Plot: The film follows four couples. Each of the women are readers of Steve Harvey's book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. When the men learn the women are hooked on Harvey's advice, they try to turn the tables on their mates.

Product Placement: Roger Ebert called the film "one of the greatest examples of product placement in history":We see Steve Harvey plugging the book on a daytime talk show, and then he appears again from time to time to deliver advice straight to the audience. It's a promising device for a sitcom, especially as the film assigns the characters to categories from the book, such as "The Dreamer vs. The Woman Who Is Her Own Man." This is somewhat limiting, because each character is required to behave in a way consistent with his or her label.

Critical response: The film received generally mixed reviews. At film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a "mixed" rating of 51%, based on 72 reviews and an average rating of 5.6/10, with the critical consensus saying, "In Think Like a Man, an otherwise standard rom-com is partially elevated by a committed—and attractive—cast, resulting in a funny take on modern romance".The film also holds a score of 51 on the website Metacritic based on 30 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times viewed that a major problem with the film is that it takes seriously the advice given in the book it is based upon, commenting that such an approach "might have worked as a screwball comedy or a satire, but can you believe for a moment in characters naive enough to actually live their lives following Steve Harvey's advice? The result is a tiresome exercise that circles at great length through various prefabricated stories defined by the advice each couple needs (or doesn't need)." However, Ebert called the cast "superb", noting in particular the performances of Meagan Good and Kevin Hart. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly also complimented Good and Hart's performance, as well as Romany Malco's performance. He ultimately gave the film a "B-" grade, writing that it is "so busy tracking courtship as if it were a science project that the bite-size love stories lack spontaneity." In a positive review, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune commended the film for "stick[ing] to a formula without falling prey to it" and commented that "its hangout factor is considerable, because the actors' charms are considerable.