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Stealing Harvard (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 94

There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast.

4

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 24

There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
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Movie Info

Two buddies find themselves doing some very wrong things for perfectly right reasons in this broad comedy. John (Jason Lee) is a nice guy who is responsible and hardworking; his best friend Duff (Tom Green), however, is his polar opposite, a layabout who is constantly getting in some sort of trouble. John is very much in love with his longtime girlfriend Elaine (Leslie Mann), and wants to marry her, but true to form, he has pledged not to make the walk down the aisle until he has saved up to

PG-13, 1 hr. 25 min.

Comedy

Peter Tolan

Feb 18, 2003

$13.9M

Columbia Pictures

Cast

All Critics (103) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (95) | DVD (12)

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

February 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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The timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off.

September 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. Only masochistic moviegoers need apply.

September 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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It's bland and that's the worst thing a comedy can be.

September 16, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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A shambling, incoherent story ... manages to abuse both Mr. Lee's good nature and his comic gift.

September 14, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Chronicles lame crimes poorly imagined, unplanned, wretchedly executed, with little wit or surprise.

September 13, 2002 Comment
Washington Post
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Mafia films, westerns, pirate films, and now Comedies. These are the genres that are rapidly going extinct in the movie world.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

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

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

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

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

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

September 11, 2003 Comment

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.

May 20, 2003 Comment
Palo Alto Weekly

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

April 26, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

This is just lazy.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Nothing can survive the toxic unfunniness of Green.

March 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

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.

March 13, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

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

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

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.

March 4, 2003 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

This film tries so hard to be both charming and disgusting that it's almost painful to watch.

February 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

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.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

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

January 8, 2003 Comment
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment (1)
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.

November 16, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

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

October 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Movie Habit | Comment
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.

October 23, 2002 Full Review Source: Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Stealing Harvard

A crazy movie! Jason Lee was good as the poor husband who promised to pay for his niece's education, whilst his wacky gift-basket-making wife wants him to invest the same money in a new home. Jason Lee's character must turn to his half-insane old friend Duff (Tom Green - who wasn't too gross this time) - for ideas for

August 20, 2007
YosemiteSamFan

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Gets points for Jason Lee, but otherwise not much to speak of.

January 5, 2007
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Steve B.

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