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Stealing Harvard (2002)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:1
Rotten:23
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.
Theatrical Release:Sep 13, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $13,914,181
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
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Reviews for Stealing Harvard
Top CriticAmong the squandered supporting cast are Dennis Farina, Chris Penn, Megan Mullally, and Seymour Cassel.
02/26/07
Top CriticThe timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off.
09/19/02
Top CriticDepressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. Only masochistic moviegoers need apply.
09/17/02
Top CriticIt's bland and that's the worst thing a comedy can be.
09/16/02
Top CriticA shambling, incoherent story ... manages to abuse both Mr. Lee's good nature and his comic gift.
09/14/02
Top CriticChronicles lame crimes poorly imagined, unplanned, wretchedly executed, with little wit or surprise.
09/13/02
Top CriticTom Green and an Ivy League college should never appear together on a marquee, especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like Stealing Harvard, which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800.
09/13/02
Top CriticDirector Bruce McCulloch packs every scene with visual gags and his Kids in the Hall satiric touch is all over this movie.
09/13/02
Top CriticIt'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
Top CriticThe script is stale, but the gags are downright rancid.
09/13/02
Top CriticThe film glorifies incompetence, in part by terrorizing you with it.
09/13/02
Top CriticA 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
Top CriticStealing 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
Top CriticStealing Harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time.
09/13/02
Top CriticThis is as lax and limp a comedy as I've seen in a while, a meander through worn-out material.
09/13/02
Top CriticIt's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script, but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role.
09/13/02
Top CriticIt's all pretty tame. The most offensive thing about the movie is that Hollywood expects people to pay to see it.
09/12/02
Top Critic[Jason Lee] is the one good reason to watch this farce. Green is one of many good reasons to avoid it.
09/12/02
Top CriticStealing Harvard is an act of grand theft -- the way it wastes your time is a crime.
09/12/02
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