Stealing Harvard
Stealing Harvard is a comedy and crime film which tells about a middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
3 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1972, San Francisco, California, USA
29 April 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 29, 2009
With only an occasional laugh here and there, this is just another of the many stinky comedies to come around in years.
September 11, 2003
McCulloch stages his action as if he were still working on the two-walled sets he knew from Canadian television.
January 08, 2003
There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.
April 26, 2003
Stealing Harvard is a limp and lazy affair, and a flick that positively reeks of contractual obligation.
September 19, 2002
The timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off.
June 24, 2006
Weird, then, how the cast play as if holding their breath for the pay cheque.
September 17, 2002
Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived. Only masochistic moviegoers need apply.
September 19, 2002
Whenever Green shows up to do his semi-improvised, non-acting shtick ... this otherwise sprightly and intermittently amusing movie suddenly feels like a ship dragging its anchor.
August 07, 2008
Director Bruce McCulloch tries to minimize the damage Green does, but even one frame of him would be too much.
April 21, 2003
This is just lazy.
February 26, 2007
Among the squandered supporting cast are Dennis Farina, Chris Penn, Megan Mullally, and Seymour Cassel.
May 20, 2003
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.
