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Stealing Harvard

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Stealing Harvard (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 101 Fresh: 8  Rotten:93 Average Rating: 3.2/10
 
Consensus: There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast. There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast. more
 
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis:
Jason Lee plays a well-intentioned Everyman who is forced into a life of crime in STEALING HARVARD. Engaged to the beautiful Elaine (Leslie Mann) and saving up to buy their dream house, John (Lee) appears to have it all. But when his sister shows him a videotape in which he promises to pay for his... [More]
Jason Lee plays a well-intentioned Everyman who is forced into a life of crime in STEALING HARVARD. Engaged to the beautiful Elaine (Leslie Mann) and saving up to buy their dream house, John (Lee) appears to have it all. But when his sister shows him a videotape in which he promises to pay for his niece's college education, he finds himself desperate for thirty thousand dollars. Recruiting his slightly psychopathic friend Duff (Tom Green) to help him come up with some fast cash, John quickly discovers that he's only making things worse for himself. After a bumbled mini-mart hold-up and a house burglary gone terribly wrong, John's descent into a life of crime takes even more outrageous turns for the worse. After he eventually comes clean with Elaine, she hatches a plan to rob her father's (Dennis Farina) home healthcare business. As the trio breaks into the Homespital offices, a maniacal police detective (John C. McGinley) and Elaine's father both make their move. Former Kids in the Hall member-turned-director Bruce McCulloch, working from an outlandish script from Peter Tolan (ANALYZE THIS, WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?), gets solid performances out of his three leads, in addition to supporting players McGinley, Farina, and Richard Jenkins. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Megan Mullally

Director: Bruce McCulloch
Screenwriter: Peter Tolan
Producer: Susan Cavan
Composer: Christophe Beck

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 2, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French

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Weird, then, how the cast play as if holding their breath for the pay cheque.

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06/24/06 03:40 AM
Derek Adams
Time Out
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This is just lazy.

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04/21/03 05:26 PM
Danny Graydon
Empire Magazine
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Nothing can survive the toxic unfunniness of Green.

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03/25/03 05:18 PM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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It's no-win stuff. It's not offensive enough to appeal to Green's (ever-decreasing) fan-base, nor witty enough to convince anyone else.

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03/04/03 08:46 AM
Mark Stevens
BBC
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This film tries so hard to be both charming and disgusting that it's almost painful to watch.

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02/16/03 08:40 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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03/10/07 05:32 AM
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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Among the squandered supporting cast are Dennis Farina, Chris Penn, Megan Mullally, and Seymour Cassel.

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02/26/07 06:38 PM
Bill Stamets
Chicago Reader
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McCulloch stages his action as if he were still working on the two-walled sets he knew from Canadian television.

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09/11/03 05:15 PM
Geoff Carter
Las Vegas Weekly
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There is no real reason to see this unless you are related to someone involved in the project, and even then you might think pretty hard before you spend $9 and 90 minutes here.

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05/20/03 05:19 PM
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly
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Stealing Harvard is a limp and lazy affair, and a flick that positively reeks of contractual obligation.

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04/26/03 06:47 AM
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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You'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery.

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03/13/03 03:53 AM
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
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The result is a corps of good actors stuck with feeble, unfunny material that could easily pass as a crime against the moviegoing public.

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03/10/03 08:56 AM
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle
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I suppose as long as there are teenage boys to shell out money for movie tickets, there will be movies like this to suck it up.

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02/08/03 08:35 AM
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.

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01/08/03 12:53 PM
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Being a film critic means taking the good with the bad, or more precisely, suffering through "Stealing Harvard," a porta-potty of a comedy that overflows with crappy jokes and pee-brained performances.

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12/30/02 01:40 PM
John Larsen
Light Views
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The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off.

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12/08/02 08:45 AM
David Grove
Film Threat
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There’s just enough to Stealing Harvard to prevent it from being the worst movie of the year. But the few things that this movie has going for it have nothing to do with Tom Green.

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11/16/02 01:23 AM
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile
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Harvard and neices have nothing to do with this movie, it's just an excuse for 90 minutes of jokes

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10/25/02 12:08 PM
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit
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Seemingly a vehicle to showcase the Canadian’s inane ramblings, Stealing Harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former Mr. Drew Barrymore.

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10/23/02 03:14 PM
Rachel Deahl
Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA)
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“Stealing Harvard,” from a one-joke premise by Peter Tolan, is about as fun as the current working climate at Tyco.

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10/03/02 07:15 AM
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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