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John Whitesell has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, Kristin Chenoweth
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Kevin Durant, Taylor Gray, Jim Belushi
A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.
Dir. John Whitesell · With David Arquette, Leslie Bibb, Michael Clarke Duncan

FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper-class kids in order to spy on their computer hacker father.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Martin Lawrence, Marisol Nichols, Kevin Durand
Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his house with so many decorative lights that it'll be visible from space! When their wives bond, and their kids follow suit, the two men only escalate their rivalry - and their decorating.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis

A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Jamie Kennedy, Taye Diggs, Anthony Anderson
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son Trent go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
Dir. John Whitesell · With Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas