A distant relative of MRS. DOUBTFIRE and TOOTSIE, this made-for-TV, family-friendly farce dishes out sentimentality and slapstick in equal portions. Recidivist con man Tucker (Harland Williams) is fresh out of jail and full of plans to launch a license-plate scam. Unfortunately, he runs afoul of two felons who resent Tucker's plans to muscle in on their territory. Tucker takes it on the lam, boarding a train and stealing the clothes and the identity of educator and author Naomi Bascombe (Janet Wright), who's en route to a new job at the all-girls Rawlings Academy. Tucker presents him/herself as the new headmistress, and finds he has an instant enemy in Miss Magnum (K...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins