JUWANNA MANN When brash B-baller Jamal (Miguel A. Nunez Jr. of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps) gets thrown out of the league after courting a little too much controversy, his love of the game forces him to switch teams, so to speak, by joining the WNBA. But the setup becomes a real drag when he falls for a beautiful teammate (Vivica A. Fox). Expect lots of jokes about, well, balls. (June 21)

PUMPKIN Campus queen Carolyn (Christina Ricci, in one of the 126 films she appeared in at this year's Sundance Film Festival) is so determined to boost her sorority that she volunteers at the Challenged Games, where she meets wheelchair athlete Pumpkin (Hank Harris). Soon enough, Ricci finds herself falling for the jovial jock--and questioning her loyalty to the shocked school sisters. (June 28)

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Queen Latifah introduces four portraits--all directed by women--of life in MAMA AFRICA.... Two men lock horns over the same woman in the Cannes prizewinner THE FAST RUNNER (ATANARJUAT), the first film ever produced in the Inuit language.... In BOBBY G. CAN'T SWIM: A STORY FROM HELL'S KITCHEN, one last score represents a drug dealer's big chance to flee his tough neighborhood.... BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, a restored version of Jean Cocteau's 1946 classic La Belle et la Bete, will remind us how attractiveness is more than skin-deep.... CUBA FELIZ documents a 76-year-old troubadour known as the Rooster on his travels throughout the countryside of his homeland.... And WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, a nominee for a 2001 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, follows shutterbug James Nachtwey into the international hot spots where he captures his indelible images.

Originally posted Apr 26, 2002 Published in issue #650-651 Apr 26, 2002 Order article reprints
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