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Dirty Work

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Dirty Work (1998)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:5

Rotten:24

Average Rating:3.9/10

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: MacDonald stars as Mitch Weaver, a down on his luck guy who has been annoying to most everyone who has crossed him. In an effort to raise money for one of his pals, Mitch embarks on a freelance... MacDonald stars as Mitch Weaver, a down on his luck guy who has been annoying to most everyone who has crossed him. In an effort to raise money for one of his pals, Mitch embarks on a freelance revenge scheme. [More]

Starring: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Don Rickles, Christopher McDonald

Starring: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Don Rickles, Christopher McDonald, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Gary Coleman, Ken Norton, John Goodman, Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf

Director: Bob Saget

Director: Bob Saget
Screenwriter: Frank Sebastiano, Norm MacDonald, Fred Wolf
Producer: Robert Simonds
Composer: Richard Gibbs

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Jon Popick
Jon Popick
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10/18/08
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

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10/18/08
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Occasionally funny, but all too often driven by the juvenile conviction that anything even remotely connected with homosexuality is riotously funny...

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06/02/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The outrageousness isn't consistently sustained, and the pic tends to peter out somewhere around the two thirds mark.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/02/08
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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A ribald flood of comic bliss.

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04/14/06
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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03/25/05
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Okay starring vehicle for Norm MacDonald, but you'd think he could do better.

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02/27/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

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10/26/03
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
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08/17/03
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

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02/12/03
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

: "Saturday Night Live" alum Norm Macdonald's feature debut ain't great, but he is.

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

Why does Hollywood think that everyone who ever appeared on "Saturday Night Live" deserves a film career as a reward? What's the excuse for showcasing Norm Macdonald, a third-rate Dennis Miller knockoff whose delivery is slower than Priority Mail?

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06/23/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Tasteless? Oh, yeah.

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03/24/02
Boston Phoenix

...proves that a comedy doesn't need an R rating to be crude, rude, or stupid. Even an innocent PG-13 can do the trick.

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04/08/01
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
 
 
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