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When a basketball professional, Jamal, played by Miguel A. Núñez Jr, loses his temper on court and exposes himself, he gets thrown out of the league. Suddenly his high-spending lifestyle is at an end, unless he can find some way of continuing to earn money the only way he knows how. Somehow he manages to join a team in the women's basketball league.
A standard Tootsie plot development now follows. Where Tootsie was bland and a little neurotic, Jamal is too vulgar and egotistical to make him sympathetic or his ultimate redemption very credible.
Núñez has substantial screen time dressed as a woman. There are some nice outfits -- a great suit and cocktail dress -- and except for his physique and manner he is pretty convincing; the make-up people achieved an exceptionally smooth facial complexion.
Some typical cross-dressing plot elements follow -- difficulties in the shower room, sexual orientation misunderstandings and so on. Not all of these are very credible -- the policeman scene is just too bizarre to be taken seriously -- but it's a comedy film.
The film substitutes UBA and WUBA as the basketball bodies involved in organising the sports; the real national bodies are NBA and the WNBA respectively; no doubt this change was to avoid legal objections from those organisations.
Núñez revealed that he was conscious of his genital bulge while he was wearing the tight-fitting dresses -- I think the position i which he is holding his handbag (purse) in this shot betrays that nervousness.
In summary, an entertaining take on the Tootsie theme, better carried off than many efforts provided you don't look too strenuously for literal real-life to be portrayed.
Núñez played Biscuit in Life (1999).
HF July 2002
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