Harvard Man

The movie has a good story, revealing the issue of drugs, but most of all the consequences of drugs. The weakness of the story was that it showed that supposedly its easy so easy to get $$$, that it might distract... Full review

In this movie Sarah Michelle Gellar once again picks a role that is interesting...or at least has an interesting life. Unlike her roles in "Simply Irresistable" and The Scooby Doo movies, this movie gives her something to do and is pretty... Full review

After watching it, I thought that I just had 15000 does of LSD! The whole story was pretty stupid and boring, doesn't really make sense and I really don't feel that I should try to understand since they are some harvard... Full review

This has to be one of the most lackluster products to ever come out of Harvard. The director takes us on nothing more than drug-induced trip across the campus using a bubble lens to simulate the effects. 3rd graders are more... Full review

The movie has an unintentionally ridiculous plot involving tri-sexual FBI agents, mobsters, a hot blonde philosophy professor, high stakes gambling, a natural disaster, and a cameo appearance by Al Franken. Interspersed with these things are characters tripping on drugs or... Full review

This movie had so many chances to be comedic, dramatic and even interesting, but just failed on so many levels. In some instances the actors were so "acting" that it was just unbelievable. Nothing good here. Joey Lauren Adams is... Full review

Okay, if this movie didn't have Sarah Michelle Geller in it I wouldn't have bothered even renting it, but I did, and although it did have it's funny moments and interesting twists, it was just so dissapointing to me to see... Full review

I think she is the best on the movie. She's this rich girl and she it. The sex scenes are the best. I always wonder if they are really having sex, because they play the parts so well.... Full review

I love Sarah Michelle Gellar a lot! But this movie was just stupid! I turned it off 45 minutes in. Dont see this unless you wanna see sarah have sex with her bf!... Full review

This movie is great I am not that big of a fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar but that didn't stop this movie from being great the editing in this movie is perfect stop whatever your doing and go watch it... Full review

Eric Stoltz, clearly having a blast, is terrific as the mob boss' right-hand man with a hidden agenda.....Chesney adamantly advises against his plan to experiment with the LSD a chemistry major friend of Alan's has synthesized, using the original Sandoz formula.....Grenier is a likable searcher....while Gellar is perfectly cast as the daddy's girl who doesn't think twice about selling out her boyfriend..... ... Full Review

this tawdry flick proves that she'll survive outside Sunnydale.....Most movies that focus on the dangers of college drug use are either "fun" teen romps or long-format After School Specials.....Harvard Man 's refusal to pass judgment on characters' drug use is troubling..... ... Full Review

In a summer of clones, Harvard Man is something rare and riveting: a wild ride that relies on more than special effects. But watching Toback overextend himself is exhilarating. ... Full Review

he likes to talk even more than he likes to gamble.....the movie's visuals, distorting faces and summoning up scenes that may.... ... Full Review

Some of my favorite scenes involve Adams, as the professor.....the movie's visuals, distorting faces and summoning up scenes that may.... ... Full Review

Articulate and outspoken, Toback recently spoke with MM about the autobiographical nature of his work, the problems one faces by being fiercely independent and why you'll never find him behind the camera on Lethal Weapon 13. ... Full Article

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. ... Full Article

For movie details, please click here . Toback's filmography suggests his obsessive, autobiographical bent. Various Toback films (Two Girls and a Guy, Black and White, Fingers, etc.) and screenplays (Bugsy, The Gambler) are awash in matters of sex, philosophy, gambling,... ... Full Article

But before that came Harvard Man, directed by James Toback. Here Sarah played Cindy Bandolini, a cheerleader and daughter of a Mob boss, who persuades her basketball star boyfriend (Adrian Grenier) to get involved in match-fixing. It was an ambitious ... Full Article

James Toback's semi-autobiographical picture about a restless ivy leaguer on a bum trip may be his most pruriently entertaining movie since his 1978 debut, FINGERS. ... Full Article

When you cast Joey Lauren Adams as a philosophy professor at Harvard I realize it has to be some sort of joke, but Toback's approach here is just too much: the awful acting (aside from Eric Stoltz), the use of... ... Full Article