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Stealing Harvard (2002)

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Reviews Counted:102

Fresh:8

Rotten:94

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.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

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)... 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. [More]

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

Starring: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Megan Mullally, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Chris Penn, Seymour Cassel

Director: Bruce McCulloch

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

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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This is just lazy.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/21/03
Danny Graydon
Danny Graydon
Empire Magazine
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Nothing can survive the toxic unfunniness of Green.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/25/03
Peter Bradshaw
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.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
03/04/03
Mark Stevens
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.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/16/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Mafia films, westerns, pirate films, and now Comedies. These are the genres that are rapidly going extinct in the movie world.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Director Bruce McCulloch tries to minimize the damage Green does, but even one frame of him would be too much.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

Among the squandered supporting cast are Dennis Farina, Chris Penn, Megan Mullally, and Seymour Cassel.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
02/26/07
Bill Stamets
Bill Stamets
Chicago Reader

McCulloch stages his action as if he were still working on the two-walled sets he knew from Canadian television.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
09/11/03
Geoff Carter
Geoff Carter
Las Vegas Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

Stealing Harvard is a limp and lazy affair, and a flick that positively reeks of contractual obligation.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/26/03
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
03/13/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

The result is a corps of good actors stuck with feeble, unfunny material that could easily pass as a crime against the moviegoing public.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

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.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.

Full Review Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram | comment Comment
01/08/03
Scott Von Doviak
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment 1 Comment
12/08/02
David Grove
David Grove
Film Threat

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.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
11/16/02
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

Harvard and neices have nothing to do with this movie, it's just an excuse for 90 minutes of jokes

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
10/25/02
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

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.

Full Review Source: Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) | comment Comment
10/23/02
Rachel Deahl
Rachel Deahl
Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA)
 
 
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