Good Advice

Good Advice (2001)

  • 29% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 45% of users liked it
    (4,052 ratings)

In this comedy, Ryan Turner (Charlie Sheen) is a successful young stockbroker whose life falls apart seemingly overnight when Donald Simpson (Barry Newman), the owner of a powerful media conglomerate, gives him some particularly bad advice about a certain stock; this might have something to do with… More

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R,
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Genres
Comedy, Romance
In Theaters
Jan 1, 2001 Wide
Artisan Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...there's just never a point at which the viewer is drawn into either the high-concept storyline or the plight of the central character...

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Here's some good advice: never rent this.

  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

    Not really bad, but just not good either.

  • Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

    It's like that pair of old sneakers: it stinks, but it's a stink you like.

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    The best direct-to-video flick I've seen in ages.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Megan S


    This movie is cute and fun...a great movie when you want mindless entertainment with a little more substance. "Why did you kiss me?" "I didn't...I tripped." "What, and fell onto my face?"

  • Jeffrey M


    Charlie Sheen playing a character not unlike Bud Fox but this time with a romantic comedy angle, teamed with his former fling Denise Richards, playing someone probably not unlike herself, in Good Advice. There's some good laughs to be had, and Charlie Sheen does a serviceable… More

  • Leo L


    A favorite.

  • Nate H


    I can't believe they have the gall to air this on a network called Comedy Central.

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