Dirty Work

Dirty Work (1998)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (30 reviews)

  • 64% of users liked it
    (30,927 ratings)

Shortly after leaving the "Weekend Update" anchor slot on Saturday Night Live, Norm Macdonald resurfaced in this comedy about smart-aleck Mitch Weaver who teams with buddy Sam McKenna (Artie Lange of Mad TV). They open a revenge-for-hire business (Dirty Work Inc.) in order to raise $50,000… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Frank Sebastiano, Norm Macdonald, Fred Wolf
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 12, 1998 Wide
MGM

Critic Reviews

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    The outrageousness isn't consistently sustained, and the pic tends to peter out somewhere around the two thirds mark.

  • , Globe and Mail

    Tasteless? Oh, yeah.

  • David Kronke, Los Angeles Times

    A tone-deaf, scattershot and dispiritingly cheesy affair with more groans than laughs.

  • Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

    A stupid lowdown vulgar comedy.

  • Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times

    Don't bother to hang around for the outtakes. They're not funny either.

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  • Jeff "


    Painfully bad, Bob Saget's Dirty Work is a bland comedy that is not worth your time and relies on stupid humor for making you laugh. Problem is, is that it's not funny. This film bad, and with a poor cast that really don't bring anything good to the screen, this film… More

  • Lucas M


    Terrible funny, but very silly and expendable. Rotten.

  • AJ V


    I saw this on TV one day, but I didn't see all of it. There were some funny scenes, but for the most part I wasn't too entertained.

  • Tim S


    A lot of fun.

  • danny d


    i actually thought this was funny

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