84th Worst Movie: Stealing Harvard

"Stealing Harvard" Starring Tom Green, Jason Lee and Leslie Mann
Directed by Bruce McCulloch

Should Have Gone To Yale
By Michele Dillon

Ok, so this is another one of the movies on the list that isn't as HORRIBLE as I thought it would be. The premise of the movie is that John (Jason Lee) has been saving for a downpayment on a house with his fiance Elaine (Leslie Mann) who had told him that they can't get married until they have $30,000 for the downpayment. Then he finds out that his one and only neice, who he has been playing father figure for since she was born, got accepted to Harvard and a long while ago when she was 7, he had promised her if she ever got accepted to college that he would pay for it. Of course the exact amount she needs after all her scholarships and financial aid is close to $30,000. So instead of telling his fiance that he needs $30,000 for a promise he made to his neice, he decides to get the help of his friend Duff (Tom Green) to plot and plan how to "steal" the money from other sources. Of course, all of their ideas never work out so it ends up getting them more and more in trouble and leads to disaster.

The only thing that really irked me about this movie was that Lee and Green went to such drastic measures to try and get $30,000 that it was really unbelievable, and not unbelievable in a funny way. When something is so entirely unrealistic like that, its hard to dissassociate it from whether it was all done on purpose to seem that stupid or if the movie really is just stupid. There were a couple funny parts throughout the movie but overall I am a really big Non-Fan of Tom Green AND Jason Lee and Leslie Mann was the only one that saved the movie for me.