Synopsis
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
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Cast
- Jason LeeJohn Plummer
- Tom GreenWalter P. 'Duff' Duffy
- Leslie MannElaine Warner
- Megan MullallyPatty Plummer
- Dennis FarinaMr. Warner
- Tammy BlanchardNoreen Plummer
- Richard JenkinsHonorable Judge Emmett Cook
- Chris PennDavid Loach
- John C. McGinleyDetective Charles
- Seymour CasselUncle Jack
Recommendations
- 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
While Stealing Harvard may be a chucklehead comedy, Lee is oddly touching and funny. Mostly because, unlike Green, he's not aggressively trying to make us laugh. - 50
The New York Times
Together, Mr. Lee and Mr. Green have a daft comic energy, and they are assisted by game performances from the rest of the cast. - 38
Baltimore Sun
Like Adam Sandler's "Mr. Deeds," this is a hybrid, hipster-cornball movie that wants to celebrate common folk but unapologetically uses words like "trailer trash" to describe them. - 25
New York Post
Stinks even by the standards of late summer movie garbage. - 25
New York Daily News
The question is, how did the producers get the amiable, talented Jason Lee to Boogie Board down the toilet with (Green)? - 25
Entertainment Weekly
It doesn't help that most of the jokes (like a rip-off of ''There's Something About Mary'''s dog-in-the-crotch bit) are themselves stolen. - 20
Variety
Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. Only masochistic moviegoers need apply. - 20
Chicago Reader
Director Bruce McCulloch, an alumnus of the Canadian TV show "The Kids in the Hall," lacks the sense of scale and timing needed for a feature film, and Lee's voice-over about fate that brackets the narrative only highlights its shapelessness.
