Director Bruce McCulloch packs every scene with visual gags and his Kids in the Hall satiric touch is all over this movie.
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09/13/02
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)... [More]
Starring: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina
Director: Bruce McCulloch
Reviews for Stealing Harvard
Stick around for all of Stealing Harvard. It gets better.
09/13/02
Stealing Harvard doesn't care about cleverness, wit or any other kind of intelligent humor.
09/13/02
It's not enough to say that Green isn't funny in Stealing Harvard -- that might leave the impression that Green simply isn't funny in comparison to other comedians. No, it's bigger than that.
09/13/02
Not as painful as you might expect, but it is flat, shapeless and largely devoid of laughs...even Greenless it still wouldn't be much more than relentlessly mediocre.
09/13/02
Watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt, as if you were paying dues for good books unread, fine music never heard.
09/13/02
Stealing Harvard is evidence that the Farrelly Bros. -- Peter and Bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end, along with Green's half-hearted movie career.
09/13/02
Quite frankly, I can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a McCulloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out.
09/13/02
Put Tom Green in enough movies, and eventually something funny will happen. Stealing Harvard offers more evidence that this hasn't happened yet.
09/13/02
Working with a weak script and too lightweight for its freakier moments with Green, the picture never gels.
09/13/02
A film that takes a couple of decent jabs at bent, non-cliched humour but too often simply hands the ball off to Green and coasts on his efforts.
09/13/02
The script is stale, but the gags are downright rancid.
09/13/02
The minute Green's character appears on the screen, you can practically feel the energy and creativity bleeding out of the movie, which has other problems as well.
09/13/02
Here, Tolan and McCulloch manage the impossible -- they turn two eccentric performers (Lee and Tom Green) into the cinematic equivalents of Melba toast and rice crackers.
09/13/02
The film glorifies incompetence, in part by terrorizing you with it.
09/13/02
The premise is weak and the execution is inept.
09/13/02
A cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at Revolution Studios and Imagine Entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life.
09/13/02
Stealing Harvard will dip into your wallet, swipe 90 minutes of your time, and offer you precisely this in recompense: A few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious.
09/13/02
Stealing Harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time.
09/13/02
This is as lax and limp a comedy as I've seen in a while, a meander through worn-out material.
09/13/02
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