Harvard Man

Harvard Man (2001)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (36 reviews)

  • 33% of users liked it
    (7,704 ratings)

Director and screenwriter James Toback used his own experiences as a college student in the 1960s as the basis for this drama about a present-day student athlete who's bitten off more than he can chew. Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is a college sophomore struggling to keep up with an unusually busy… More

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R, 1 hr. 37 min.
Directed By
James Toback
Written By
James Toback
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Oct 29, 2002 Wide
On DVD
Nov 5, 2002
Cowboy Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News

    The attempt is courageous, even if the result is wildly uneven.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    What makes the movie work is that the premise, which sounds like a comedy, is treated with the seriousness of life and death.

  • Loren King, Chicago Tribune

    Toback offers a complex, borderline campy, and oddly entertaining study of modern moral dilemmas.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    A crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing.

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jason S


    Not all that good. I liked the actors but the characters were not likable and I ended up not caring what happened more and more as I watched it.

  • Dean !


    SMG fans will be dissapointed with this. A very odd film each which a student gets mixed up in trying to throw a basketball game in which to make money for himself and his mobster daughter, girlfriend.

  • Kevin M


    Lots of sex, deception and an adventurous storyline. Even if you don't like the plot, which involves a manipulative FBI investigation and a points-shaving scam, you'd enjoy the hilarious 'acid trip' scenes. Grenier, Adams and Stoltz are very convincing, yet there… More

  • Chosen 7


    Decent film.

  • Robert F


    Drug usage in films makes me sick....and in real life too. I think I fell asleep somewhere towards the end. Only good line was when SMG told the other girl to "Suck my dick".

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