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05/14/08
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:7
Rotten:17
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Veteran 12-stepper Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) has a successful cable-access show until his worst nightmare comes true: He's moved to the dreaded 2:45 a.m. slot, a fate worse than death in the TV... [More]
Starring: Al Franken, Laura San Giacomo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Shirley Knight
Director: Harold Ramis
Reviews for Stuart Saves His Family
Top CriticThose familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step recovery programme may bond in sympathy. The sentimentality, however, doesn't play.
06/24/06
Top CriticIt isn't good enough, it isn't smart enough, and, doggone it, most people won't like Stuart Saves His Family.
05/14/08
Top CriticOften funny, darker than you'd expect, and firmly grounded in Franken's extensive experience of the 12-Step worldview.
05/14/08
Top CriticEven if you find Franken hard to bear, as I do, the movie's take on how he functions in the world is both authoritative and compelling, and the movie steadily grows in stature.
05/14/08
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06/24/06
No review available.
10/09/05
No review available.
07/19/05
I forgive you, Al Franken. You were young and needed the money.
07/05/04
No review available.
03/27/04
The plotting is surprisingly banal, involving even talk of a property easement and turning Stuart into the executor of a relative's estate. And the relatives' problems are taken semi-seriously, which is more than this lightweight film can handle.
05/20/03
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05/20/03
There can be no excuse.
01/08/03
Though it misfires, this spoof of recovery programs should be noted for its sincerity.
07/26/02
Better than most SNL flotsam, but surely that's not saying much.
06/19/01
It was much funnier when we didn't see Stuart's family. And, if we have to see them, it would have been much funnier if they were strait-laced '50s sitcom types.
02/13/01
Top CriticDirector Harold Ramis and Franken, who wrote the script, do manage to give Stuart some dimension, however, and though he still seems like a skit (and shtick) character in places, he is also quite affecting.
01/01/00
Subtly riotous.
01/01/00
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