What Men Want

2019 American film directed by Adam Shankman

Movie film Q55257871

Facts

35 properties

Instance of: film
Director: Adam Shankman^[2]
Genre: fantasy film, romantic comedy film^[5]^[6]
Publication date: 2019, February 8, 2019, March 14, 2019, March 15, 2019
Official website: tickets.whatmenwantmovie.com
Screenwriter: Tina Gordon Chism^[3]
Based on: What Women Want^[7]
Producer: Will Packer^[25]
Assessment: Bechdel test
CNC film rating (Romania): N - 15
Cast member: Taraji P. Henson, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Max Greenfield, Aldis Hodge, Tracy Morgan, Josh Brener, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Jason Jones, Kellan Lutz, Brian Bosworth, Chris Witaske, Erykah Badu, Shaquille O'Neal, Pete Davidson, Mark Cuban, Richard Roundtree^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]
ClassInd rating: 16
Composer: Brian Tyler^[4]
Country of origin: United States
Different from: What Men Want
Director of photography: Jim Denault
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Distribution format: video on demand
FSK film rating: FSK 12
Film editor: Emma E. Hickox
Has characteristic: title for Hispanic America, title for Spain
ICAA rating: not recommended for children under 12
JMK film rating: free from 12 years
Kijkwijzer rating: 12

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MPA film rating: R
Narrative location: Atlanta
Original language of film or TV show: English
P14449: 196887
P14671: 51763
P14821: 7634968
Production company: Will Packer Productions, BET
RARS rating: 18+
Review score: 41%, 5.1/10, 49/100
Social media followers: +3566, +3655
Title: What Men Want

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🔖 Identifiers · 46

Allcinema film ID: 367597
AlloCiné film ID: 260674
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.60snqcmaj3poc82de44ujc39s
BBC Things ID: ff3c4b4b-a507-4d83-b25f-0b7c3bf0032e
Bechdel Test Movie List ID: 8884
Box Office Mojo film ID (former scheme): whatmenwant
Cinema.de ID: 9520739
Cineplex Germany film ID: 355226
ClassInd audiovisual work ID: 82647
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID: 42477
Dvdcompare.net film ID: 50276, 50275
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/C048-434F-0509-CE45-3521-T

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Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/was-maenner-wollen-2019
FilmAffinity film ID: 449426
FilmVandaag ID: film/104599
Filmovamista.cz film ID: 6098
Filmová databáze film ID: 161904
Filmstarts title ID: 260674
Filmweb.no film ID: 73298
Google Knowledge Graph ID: /g/11f6gj9q11
Google Play Movies & TV ID: 5FjeZCXcVns
ICAA film catalogue ID: 49619
IMDb ID: tt7634968
ISzDb film ID: 24696
ITunes movie ID: 1.4B (1.4B–1.4B, n=3)
KINENOTE film ID: 92198
Kinobox film ID: 438817
Kinopoisk film ID: 1108581
Kinopolis film ID: 6CD54000012PLXMQDD
LUMIERE film ID: 84850
LdiF ID: 572701
Letterboxd film ID: what-men-want
MUBI film ID: 213139
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 63926
Metacritic ID: movie/what-men-want
NientePopCorn movie ID: what-men-want
Plex media key: 5d776d83ad5437001f7d8170
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/what_men_want_2019
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 68682
TMDB movie ID: 487297
TheTVDB movie ID: 111
Trakt.tv ID: movies/what-men-want-2019
Trakt.tv film ID: 334304
X (Twitter) username: whatmenwant
YouTube video ID: ncqsfNE4yJg
ČSFD film ID: 645591

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Cast member 16

Shaquille O'Neal, Taraji P. Henson, Erykah Badu, Kellan Lutz, Mark Cuban, Pete Davidson, Tracy Morgan, Richard Roundtree +8 more

Genre 2

romantic comedy, fantasy film

Assessment 1

Bechdel test

Based on 1

What Women Want

Composer 1

Brian Tyler

Country of origin 1

United States

Director 1

Adam Shankman

Distributed by 1

Paramount Pictures

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Film editor 1

Emma E. Hickox

Instance of 1

film

Narrative location 1

Atlanta

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Production company 1

BET

← Derivative work 1

What Women Want

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Summary

What Men Want is a film^[1].

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Publication

Publication dates include 2019^[26], February 8, 2019^[27], March 14, 2019^[28], and March 15, 2019^[29]. The original language of What Men Want was English^[30]. It was distributed by video on demand^[31].

Reception

Reviews include 41%^[32], 5.1/10^[33], and 49/100^[34].

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Class ancestry

[1] ↑ What Men Want is an instance of film (Q11424) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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9w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14821 → 7634968

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10w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Filmová databáze film ID → 161904

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14w ago · Yirba · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14671 → 51763

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18w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Genre → fantasy film, romantic comedy film

P14449 → 196887

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26w ago · Xezbeth · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

JMK film rating → free from 12 years

Composer → Brian Tyler

Film editor → Emma E. Hickox

ClassInd rating → 16

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