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It isn't good enough, it isn't smart enough, and, doggone it, most people won't like Stuart Saves His Family. May 14, 2008
It isn't good enough, it isn't smart enough, and, doggone it, most people won't like Stuart Saves His Family.
Joe Leydon
Even 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. May 14, 2008 | Full Review…
Even 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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Those familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step recovery programme may bond in sympathy. The sentimentality, however, doesn't play. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Those familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step recovery programme may bond in sympathy. The sentimentality, however, doesn't play.
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. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2/5
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.
Janet Maslin
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. Feb 13, 2001 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Rainer
All in all, it's a misfire -- but a misfire that's more interesting than a lot of successes. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
All in all, it's a misfire -- but a misfire that's more interesting than a lot of successes.
Mick LaSalle
Wisely, "Stuart Saves His Family" attempts something tougher than the usual "SNL" movie, painting a fully fleshed-out portrait of seriocomic misery. In a subgenre littered with films worth forgetting, here is one that's good enough and smart enough. Feb 26, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Wisely, "Stuart Saves His Family" attempts something tougher than the usual "SNL" movie, painting a fully fleshed-out portrait of seriocomic misery. In a subgenre littered with films worth forgetting, here is one that's good enough and smart enough.
Nick Rogers
Often funny, darker than you'd expect, and firmly grounded in Franken's extensive experience of the 12-Step worldview. May 14, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Often funny, darker than you'd expect, and firmly grounded in Franken's extensive experience of the 12-Step worldview.
Played unsuccessfully for laughs, it is ploddingly directed. And proudly proclaimed as a Ramis film. After this he should change his name or profession. May 14, 2008 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
Played unsuccessfully for laughs, it is ploddingly directed. And proudly proclaimed as a Ramis film. After this he should change his name or profession.
Film4 Staff
I prepared myself for yet another "one joke" Saturday Night Live movie here, but what I got was an enjoyable little film that actually touched upon some interesting issues... Jun 24, 2006 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
I prepared myself for yet another "one joke" Saturday Night Live movie here, but what I got was an enjoyable little film that actually touched upon some interesting issues...
JoBlo
Not as bad as you'd expect Mar 9, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
Not as bad as you'd expect
Luke Y. Thompson
I forgive you, Al Franken. You were young and needed the money. Jul 5, 2004
I forgive you, Al Franken. You were young and needed the money.
Martin Scribbs
I liked the Stuart Skit on Saturday Night Live; it's a funny premise of self-help addiction. The movie wasn't too bad, but the characters got a bit annoying.
Super Reviewer
I'm not a fantatic of the Stuart character. This film directed by Harold Ramis was hilarious! I enjoyed watching the entire movie.
Wow . . . who woulda thunk it? Stuart Smalley is a memorable character from Al Franken's SNL days. I'm not sure I actually mean "memorable" in a good way here, but Smalley is not easliy forgotten. The SNL episode with Michael Jordan leaps to mind.
Here's an impromptu scale for movies that deal with addiction: Ray Milland in Lost Weekend on the heavy end, Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski on the light end. Franken manages to deal with the problem of addiction in a way that's tipped to the Milland end: very serious, almost too serious, for what would appear to be a comedy.
Vincent D'Onofrio . . . may actually be the best job he's done. I'm no fan.
Really, flixster friends, not a bad movie at all. Love the picture in front of the Hollywood sign.
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