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Just Wright

2010, Romance/Comedy, 1h 41m

111 Reviews 100,000+ Ratings

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Well-intentioned but formulaic, Just Wright has winning leads but can't overcome its preponderance of cliches. Read critic reviews

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(L-R) Paula Patton as Morgan Alexander, Queen Latifah as Leslie Wright and Common as Scott McKnight in "Just Wright." photo 16

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(L-R) Common as Scott McKnight and Queen Latifah as Leslie Wright in "Just Wright." photo 18

(L-R) Queen Latifah as Leslie Wright and Paula Patton as Morgan Alexander in "Just Wright." photo 19

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Movie Info

Physical therapist Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) lands the dream job of working with basketball superstar Scott McKnight (Common). All goes well until Leslie finds that she is falling in love with him. Scott, however, is oblivious to Leslie's romantic overtures and focuses his attention on Morgan (Paula Patton), Leslie's gorgeous friend, who would love to be the basketball player's trophy wife.

Rating:

PG (Some Suggestive Material|Brief Language)
Genre:

Romance, Comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Sanaa Hamri
Producer:

Debra Martin Chase, Shakim Compere, Queen Latifah
Writer:

Michael Elliot
Release Date (Theaters):

May 14, 2010 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 14, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA):

$21.5M
Runtime:

1h 41m
Distributor:

Fox

Cast & Crew

Queen Latifah
Leslie Wright

Common
Scott McKnight

Paula Patton
Morgan Alexander

James Pickens Jr.

James Pickens Jr.
Lloyd Wright

Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad
Ella McKnight

Pam Grier
Janice Wright

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Audience Reviews for Just Wright

Dec 22, 2013

if you ever want to vomit and laugh at the same time, watch a Queen Latifah movie.

Stevie S Super Reviewer
Jan 25, 2011

Pretty standard romance movie. The acting isn't great,but i've seen worse. I usually don't like queen latifah,but she was decent here.

Everett J Super Reviewer
Jan 02, 2011

Queen Latifah plays Leslie Wright, a physical therapist and Basketball fan who is tired of being the girl that guys want to hang out with but not be with. She lives with her beautiful Godsister, Morgan, who wants to be an NBA trophy wife and live out the rest of her days shopping, dining, and looking good for photographers. After attending a Nets game, Leslie has a chance encounter with the Nets star player, Scott McKnight (Common), who seems to like her. He even invites her to his birthday party. All prospects of starting a relationship are seemingly shot when Morgan tags along; and of course McKnight is immediately attracted to Morgan. After a whirlwind romance the two get engaged. All seems to be going to Morgan's plan until McKnight suffers a possibly career ending injury. Imagining that her multi-millionaire NBA star fiancé will somehow become penniless because of this, Morgan decides to leave him. And Leslie is the only one who can fix him nursing him back to health with a Rocky style training montage. Queen Latifah's Leslie is a lovely woman - strong, independent, funny, kind, warm and caring and it is really hard not to like her. Of course this film will make you go all mushy in the end, but what do you expect? It's a romantic comedy.

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Nov 04, 2010

I wanted to like this because I love Queen Latifah, and the story was good, but it just didn't play out like it could have. Also, Common is a pretty terrible actor.

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