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02/09/06
Harvard Man (2002)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:12
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Harvard Man is a pretentious, incoherent mess.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This innovative drama from writer and director James Toback (BUGSY, BLACK AND WHITE) follows the travails of Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier), a Harvard student determined to live life to the fullest... [More]
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Eric Stoltz, Rebecca Gayheart
Director: James Toback
Reviews for Harvard Man
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05/17/02
For those who accept the offbeat premise, the film ultimately delivers a satisfying dramatic exploration of the ways we create ourselves.
07/14/02
What makes the movie work is that the premise, which sounds like a comedy, is treated with the seriousness of life and death.
07/13/02
Top CriticToback offers a complex, borderline campy, and oddly entertaining study of modern moral dilemmas.
07/11/02
Unintelligible, poorly acted, brain-slappingly bad, Harvard Man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic.
06/28/02
No review available.
12/01/07
Gambling and throwing a basketball game for money isn't a new plot -- in fact Toback himself used it in Black and White. But Toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again.
04/12/02
The attempt is courageous, even if the result is wildly uneven.
09/05/02
Harvard Man is a semi-throwback, a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality.
07/03/02
The long-delayed flick's weak story and poor casting shows that Gellar is too cute to be Corleone; Adams is too high-pitched to be tenured; and Gayheart is still too whatever to care about.
06/28/02
This movie is so bad, that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad.
07/01/02
No review available.
07/23/05
An overstylized, puréed mélange of sex, psychology, drugs and philosophy. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery.
05/27/03
A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie.
07/02/02
A frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick, contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical, small and decadent for the malls.
07/23/02
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12/06/05
Fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess.
06/04/02
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12/08/02
There's a certain niche audience that will eat up Harvard Man -- but whether that's the mob-movie set, the college-movie set, or the sex-movie set, I really have no idea.
07/30/02
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