She's the Man
Directed by	Andy Fickman
Produced by	Lauren Shuler Donner
Written by	William Shakespeare (play), Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith
Starring	Amanda Bynes James Kirk Lynda Boyd Channing Tatum Laura Ramsey Robert Hoffman Alex Breckenridge Emily Perkins Jonathan Sadowski Clifton Murray David Cross Vinnie Jones Brandon Jay McLaren
Distributed by	DreamWorks
Release date	March 17, 2006
Running time	105 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

She's the Man is a 2006 film, starring Amanda Bynes and directed by Andy Fickman, based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The film also stars Alex Breckenridge and co-stars David Cross.

Tagline

Everybody has a secret...Duke wants Olivia who likes Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is dating Monique so she hates Olivia who's with Duke to make Sebastian jealous who is really Viola who's crushing on Duke who thinks she's a guy...

Plot synopsis

Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is a member of an upper-class family and plays for her school's (Cornwall High) soccer team. When Cornwall cuts the girls' soccer team because not enough girls signed up for it, Viola decides to try out for the boys' team. The coach of the Cornwall boy’s team refuses to allow her to play on the team.

When her twin Sebastian, scheduled to attend Illyria High School, decides to go to London to play music, Viola resolves to pose as Sebastian so that she can try out for the Illyria boys’ soccer team. Then, she could play against Cornwall and show her old school that girls can indeed play soccer just as well as the boys.

To look like a boy, she cross-dresses and adopts masculine attributes with the help of her friend Paul Antonio. She falls in love with Sebastian's handsome roommate Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum), the captain of the Illyria boys' soccer team. Meanwhile, Duke has a crush on Olivia, the prettiest girl in school. Duke enlists the help of Viola (posing as Sebastian) to help him get a date with Olivia, but in this process of matchmaking, Olivia falls for Viola (as Sebastian) instead. To make Viola (as Sebastian) notice her, Olivia flirts and dates Duke, to Viola's chagrin. When the real Sebastian unexpectedly returns from London early, Olivia kisses him in front of Duke, setting off a series of confused actions and reactions, including Viola being thrown out of her room and Illyria nearly losing the soccer game due to Duke's anger.

Amanda Bynes posing as Sebastian.

References to Twelfth Night

• The main or secondary characters in the play share the exact names as the original Shakespeare play, such as Olivia, Duke, Sebastian, and Viola.
• On the movie poster near the bottom in the production credits, there is a line that says: Inspired by the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
• In the trailer, when Amanda Bynes walks through the school's campus outside, a billboard can be seen on the left hand side advertising the school's production of "What You Will". That is the alternate title for Twelfth Night, which this film is based on.
• The pizza parlor where the kids hang out is called Cesario's, in reference to the name Cesario, which is the name Viola used when she posed as a boy in the play Twelfth Night.
• The line "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," which was spoken by the character of Duke Orsino in the film, is a direct quotation from the letter read by Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
• Various character names in the film are taken from Twelfth Night, although the roles in the film bear no similarity to their namesakes in the play. These character names are: Malvolio (the name of Malcolm's tarantula in the film), Feste (Malcolm's last name in the film), Valentine (Monique's last name in the film), Andrew and Toby (Duke's soccer buddies in the film) and Maria (Olivia's friend in the film).
• Stratford Country Club is a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare grew up.
• "Illyria" is the country in which Twelfth Night, or What You Will is set.
• In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, a Duke named Orsino does fall in love with Olivia, who falls in love with Viola in disguise, as Viola herself, trapped looking like a man, falls in love with Orsino.
• Viola and Sebastian are twins in both this movie and the play.
• In the play, Viola dresses as a guy because she needs to be male in order to get a job and survive, just as Viola "needs" to disguise herself in order to get on a soccer team in the movie.
• The confusion caused when Olivia kisses the real Sebastian in the movie directly parallels the confusion Sebastian feels in Twelfth Night, or What You Will when Olivia expresses her love for him and proposes marriage.
• When Duke has the disguised Viola help him get Olivia's attention in the movie, he is doing exactly what the Duke Orsino had his servant Cesario (Viola in disguise) do in the play.
• Malcolm's role in the movie is somewhat remniscent of Malvolio's in the play

Box office total

North American

As of July 1, 2006, She's the Man has grossed a total of $33.7 million in North America. [1]

Trivia

• Jesse McCartney was about to play James Kirk's character but he wasn't available. As a result, Bynes' character pretending to be a male seems to resemble McCartney.
• Bynes didn't really play soccer; her double for most of her soccer scenes was Shannon McDonald, a native of Richmond, British Columbia. McDonald's husband was also a double for Tatum.
• The lyrics of Sebastian's song in the film are the opening lines of "Let Go" by Dave Lichens.
• The final film to be distributed by DreamWorks themselves, as Paramount Pictures purchased the company in 2005. It was made before the purchase, and released afterwards. The first DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount is Over the Hedge. Paramount, however, will release She's the Man on DVD
• She's the Man was filmed in Vancouver.
• She's the Man is quite similiar to the movie Motocrossed, created by Disney Channel.
• Brandon Jay McLaren actually has played competitive soccer and had a scholarship to play in college.
• The scene where Robert Hoffman runs up the goal and flips off it was done by the actor himself, not his double.
• In the Spanish-dubbed version of the film, the voice actress of Viola also did the voice for Amanda in the syndicated version of The Amanda Show.
• The first PG-13 film Amanda Bynes stars in.

See also

• Cross-dressing in film and television
• Shakespeare on screen (Twelfth Night)

External links

• Official site
• She's the Man at the Internet Movie Database
• She's the Man soundtrack questions, answers and other music information.