Stuart Saves His Family PG-13
You'll laugh because it's not your family. You'll cry because it is.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 21, 2020
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Franken | |
Performer: | Harris Yulin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Phil Hartman, Laura San Giacomo, Shirley Knight, Julia Sweeney & Ted Raimi | |
Directed by | Harold Ramis | |
Edited by | Pembroke Herring & Craig Herring | |
Screenwriting by | Al Franken | |
Composition by | Marc Shaiman | |
Produced by | Trevor Albert, C.O. Erickson & Lorne Michaels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Not as bad as you'd expect
New Times
Those familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step recovery programme may bond in sympathy. The sentimentality, however, doesn't play.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
Often funny, darker than you'd expect, and firmly grounded in Franken's extensive experience of the 12-Step worldview.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
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.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Stretched out to an agonizing ninety-seven minutes, Stuart goes from being passably amusing to tedious to virtually unwatchable.
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ReelViews
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
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The Film Yap
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.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Veteran 12-stepper Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) has a successful cable-access show until his worst nightmare comes true: He's moved to the dreaded 2:45 a.m. slot, a fate worse than death in the TV world. Eventually Stuart's show is canceled, and he must face unemployment with the help of his various 12-step sponsors. Just when he is as low as he can possibly get, he is forced to face his completely dysfunctional family for a funeral back home in Minnesota. This hotbed of addictive and compulsive behavior includes an alcoholic father (Harris Yulin), a passive mom (Shirley Knight), an overeating sister (Leslie Boone), and an all-around addict brother (Vincent D'onofrio). All of this bad behavior is almost too much for the recovered Stuart, as he is forced to face his family's weaknesses as they all battle to understand one another. Through a series of familial disasters and increasingly dysfunctional behavior, Stuart must decide whether his family is worth saving or if he must leave them all behind for good. Director Harold Ramis has successfully taken the popular SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit and turned it into a charming little movie that is littered with small surprises throughout.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 25,700
- UPC: 032429338617
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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