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Plot summary
Jamal Jeffries plays for the Charlotte Beat, and the team drops him and suspends him indefinitely after he strips naked to protest being pulled from a game. His agent, Lorne Daniels, cannot land him another team and cuts him loose. Endorsements dry up, his spending drains his fortune, his mansion is foreclosed and his girlfriend, Tina, leaves. He moves in with his Aunt Ruby, and with no skills beyond basketball he dresses as a woman named Juwanna Mann to try out for the Charlotte Banshees of the WUBA, with Aunt Ruby helping him keep the disguise going. He becomes a star in the women's league and grows close to his teammate Michelle, who confides in Juwanna, while Romeo's sidekick Puff Smokey Smoke pursues Juwanna.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Juwanna Mann (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Writer Bradley Allenstein came up with the film's premise while watching a WNBA game, imagining it would be funny to have a man in drag play basketball, and named the character after the real-life girlfriend of one of his friends.
