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NUMBERS
Box Office: $13,914,181
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CONSENSUS
There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast.
CAST & CREW
Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann
Directed by Bruce McCulloch
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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) appears to have it all. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, crude and sexual humor, language, and drug references
RUNTIME
90 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 13, 2002
Video: Feb 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Money
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Stealing Harvard Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes: a setup, delivery and payoff. Stealing Harvard can't even do that much. Each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "As for the antics themselves, the early ones lack, sometimes loudly lacking. But like John's dumb-determination, the script keeps rubbing its two sticks together until something funny sparks. A weak B+."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"There are a few chuckles, but not a single gag sequence that really scores, and the stars seem to be in two different movies."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Green ruins every single scene he's in, and the film, while it's not completely wreaked, is seriously compromised by that."
-- Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE
"The best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations. Then lower them a bit more."
-- Bruce Bennett, SPECTRUM (ST. GEORGE, UTAH)
"It isn’t that Stealing Harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure! It’s just that it’s so not-at-all-good. And I expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director Bruce McCulloch."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"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."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"Instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"[Green is] the comedy equivalent of Saddam Hussein, and I’m just about ready to go to the U.N. and ask permission for a preemptive strike."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"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."
-- Rachel Deahl, LOCAL PLANET WEEKLY (SPOKANE, WA)
"Watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt, as if you were paying dues for good books unread, fine music never heard."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"There are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"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."
-- Harry Guerin, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
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"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."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Another boorish movie from the I-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"A shame that Stealing Harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating, boring, and forgettable."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"It's not the worst comedy of the year, but it certainly won't win any honors."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"If you recognize Zeus (the dog from Snatch) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"The most memorable moment was when Green threw medical equipment at a window; not because it was particularly funny, but because I had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Stealing Harvard doesn't care about cleverness, wit or any other kind of intelligent humor."
-- Ted Fry, SEATTLE TIMES
"The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off."
-- David Grove, FILM THREAT
"The nicest thing that can be said about Stealing Harvard (which might have been called Freddy Gets Molested by a Dog) is that it's not as obnoxious as Tom Green's Freddie Got Fingered."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
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ROTTEN 5%
Avg. Rating: 3.3/10 |
"Some actors steal scenes. Tom Green just gives them a bad odor. This self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy Stealing Harvard, but he's the most obvious one."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Tom 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."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Stealing Harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"While the material is slight, the movie is better than you might think."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"This is as lax and limp a comedy as I've seen in a while, a meander through worn-out material."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"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."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. Only masochistic moviegoers need apply."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"The timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off."
-- Bruce Fretts, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"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."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"It's all pretty tame. The most offensive thing about the movie is that Hollywood expects people to pay to see it."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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"Green might want to hang onto that ski mask, as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project."
-- Justin Hartung, CITYSEARCH
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