Man Of The House

Director Stephen Herek was lucky to have roped Tommy Lee Jones into starring in this derivative cheerleader comedy, because too much else has already been broughten for it to score points solely for originality. Granted, Jones offers little more than another rehash of his no-nonsense FUGITIVE persona — and a pretty lazy one at that — but he's still entertaining enough to float the rest of the movie. Just as Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Jones) and his partner, Margaret Swanson (Liz Vassey), are closing in on Morgan Ball (Curtis Armstrong), a potential key witness in a government case, everything goes wrong: Swanson is badly wounded and Ball shot to death in a ...