Martin's comedic talents show no signs of life in this truly abysmal adaptation of a superior French farce...
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06/01/08
Mixed Nuts (1994)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:2
Rotten:26
Average Rating:2.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It's Christmas Eve at Lifelines, a Venice Beach suicide hotline. Philip (Steve Martin), the manager, has just been informed by the landlord that the they are being evicted and suddenly business... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: Nora Ephron
Reviews for Mixed Nuts
Top CriticEphron's timing and sensitivity have deserted her, leaving behind only the sentimentality.
02/09/06
Top CriticThe beginning of Steve Martin's non-funny comedies. Ephron should know better as well.
06/01/08
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04/12/02
Top CriticA relentlessly hectic, poorly structured farce that falls embarrassingly flat.
06/01/08
Top Critic
Most of the film goes awry with far too many misfired, ill-conceived gags.
01/01/00
A dreadful, dreary would-be dark comedy.
10/08/05
No review available.
06/30/05
Is there anything more excruciating than failed farce?
01/01/00
The dialogue is so bad that it's hard to believe anyone would even want to try to deliver it.
01/01/00
Gag.
01/01/00
Awful -- even worse when you think about the caliber of talent involved
11/10/04
One of the most poorly conceived, inept, and ridiculous motion pictures ever greenlighted in Hollywood.
12/11/01
A title song incorporating the names of nut varieties is only one of the film's desperate ploys.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
08/10/02
Odd, oddly likable little comedy.
11/05/02
No review available.
02/12/03
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