Al Franken, Harris Yulin, John Link Graney
Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices. He loses his Public Access Cable Television ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (104)
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April 5, 2008A one-joke SNL skit taken way, way too far into a maudlin black-comedy mess. Hard not to love Al Franken, though.
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November 21, 2007I liked the Stuart Skit on Saturday Night Live; it's a funny premise of self-help addiction. The movie wasn't too bad, but the characters got a bit annoying.
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February 5, 2007Wow . . . who woulda thunk it? Stuart Smalley is a memorable character from Al Franken's SNL days. I'm not sure I actually mean "memorable" in a good way here, but Smalley is not easliy forgotten. The SNL episode with Michael Jordan leaps to mind.
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May 6, 2009This film is actually really great.
don't be scared away by the SNL logo. It's a really nice film. -
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February 10, 2008One of my favorite movies. When I saw it way back when, I figured it would just be a throw-away movie, a too-long SNL sketch padded out for 90 minutes like "A Night at the Roxbury" or "It's Pat!" But Al Franken took a mildly humorous, mildly annoying character and made both him...( read more)
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
All in all, it's a misfire -- but a misfire that's more interesting than a lot of successes. full review
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