STEALING HARVARD - REVIEW
Jason Lee and Tom Green star in this overlooked comedy from 2002 about a guy having to find a way to steal $30,000 so his niece can go to Harvard since he'd promised to pay for her College education years prior. John's (Lee) uncharacteristic turn to a life of crime backfires early on when he hires the help of his friend Walter (Green), a moronic loser with consistently bad ideas. It doesn't help that John's girlfriend Elaine (Leslie Mann) has spent all their money on a downpayment for a house and that her father (the late, great Dennis Farina) hates John with a passion. With Lee and Green as the two leads, plus the involvement of Mann, Stealing Harvard might have confused cinemagoers back in the day in that it was neither a Kevin Smith film, a Judd Apatow film or a Tom Green-centric farce in the vein of Freddie Got Fingered . It feels like a film destined for the mid-to-late 90's which was frozen in the ice and thawed about 5 years too late for anyone to care.