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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
Reviews for Dirty Work
The jokes just aren't funny, and Macdonald's sardonic, 'non-acting' style of acting quickly becomes tiresome.
Worthless but awfully earnest slapstick from Macdonald, who ain't finding the Big Screen quite so simple.
A tone-deaf, scattershot and dispiritingly cheesy affair with more groans than laughs.
Attempts to carry on the comedic-vengeance tradition, with arguably mixed results.
: "Saturday Night Live" alum Norm Macdonald's feature debut ain't great, but he is.
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?
Didn't provide enough good jokes to sustain anything more than a half hour TV program.
The outrageousness isn't consistently sustained, and the pic tends to peter out somewhere around the two thirds mark.
...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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