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Harvard Man (2001)

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adrian Grenier Director: James Toback Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Actually, Sarah Michelle Gellar is more than eye candy here, March 9, 2003
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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I watched this movie because it had Sarah Michelle Gellar in it and I am a big fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I am not, in common parlance, hot for Gellar (Alyson Hannigan's smile does it for me), but for those who check out "Harvard Man" specifically to enjoy the actress this film starts to deliver while the image on the screen is still blank. However, it will not take long for you to figure out that Gellar is just eye candy in this film (even more so on the DVD) because the real focus is on the character of Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier), the alter-ego of writer-director James Toback who takes a kitchen sink approach to loading problems on this particular Harvard student to make his life explode for our cinematic enjoyment.

Alan is the point guard for Harvard's basketball team, who is "seeing" Cindy Bandolini (Gellar); she is not only a cheerleader at Holy Cross, but her father (Gianni Russo) is also the chief Mafioso for the Northeastern United States. He is also seeing Chesney Cort (Joey Lauren Adams), a Harvard Philosophy professor with one of the more interesting lecturing voices in the history of academia. But then Alan's life is disrupted by a tornado in Kansas that wipes out his family's uninsured home and a chemistry student friend who has baked up some new and improved LSD. So Alan needs $100,000 and suggests to Cindy that maybe her father can float him a loan. Cindy reports that this can happen, but Alan would have to do something in return and suddenly we are into the wonderful world of point shaving in the big Harvard-Dartmouth game. If this was not enough fun, Alan pops the acid just as the FBI are about to make their presence known. Almost all of the above action takes place to the accompaniment of music by J. S. Bach.

"Harvard Man" will remind you of some of Toback's earlier films, especially his first script for "The Gambler" and his 1987 "The Pick-Up Artist." These a films where not only are we watching interesting things happening to the characters, but where the characters tend to explore themselves and their actions in great detail (a tendency that extends even to the Mutt and Jeff Mafia hitmen running around in a sub-plot). For those of us who remember drug sequences from Sixties films trying to represent acid trips, "Harvard Man" is relatively tame and Toback ends up trying to pull a rabbit out of the hat at the end to set things right. Still, Gellar actually does end up with more to do in this film than look good and the story managed to get Eric Stoltz, John Neville and N.B.A. superstar Ray Allen on board. "Harvard Man" ends up being a high-paced roller coaster ride in which you have no idea how it is all going to play out, which is certainly nothing like being boring and predictable.

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24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Quite possibly the most annoying movie ever made, September 17, 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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I am a little surprised that Harvard has not sued the makers of this film for associating the ivy-league college with such a horrible cinematic experience. I, like many, sought this film out because Sarah Michelle Geller was in it; when I learned Rebecca Gayheart was also in the cast, I thought to myself: How bad can a film with both Geller and Gayheart be? Let me tell you: pretty doggone bad. First and foremost, the storyline and script are simply dreadful and ill-conceived, and these problems are only exacerbated by the prominence of some untalented actors in the cast. Alan Grenier is Alan Jensen, supposedly the starting point guard on the Harvard basketball team, despite the fact that he is rather short, has no semblance of athletic skill, and really doesn't even try to look like he knows what he's doing when he's on the basketball court. Honestly, this is one of the worst casting decisions I've ever seen. Did I mention the fact that his acting skills also seem to be in short supply? Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Cindy Bandolini, the unprincipled daughter of a mafia don and girlfriend of Alan; talk about your odd couple; several love scenes between the two are just icky. Of course, our ruggedly unhandsome Alan is not content with Cindy; no, he is also sleeping with his philosophy professor Chesney Cort (played by the helium-voiced Joey Lauren Adams).

Back in Kansas, a tornado destroys the home of Alan's parents, and he is determined to get the one hundred thousand dollars needed for them to rebuild. In steps Cindy with a plan to make a killing off a sports bet; all Alan has to do is throw the big game against Dartmouth. Soon, the FBI is nosing around, everybody sort of panics, hope rises in the viewer that at least one of these dreadful characters will die, and then a pretty impossible if not ludicrous ending is thrown together at the end. You don't really even care how bad the conclusion is because you are just glad the film is finally over.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie go to such lengths to annoy its audience. Almost every scene features what I would call stop gaps; every few seconds, the film seems to jump a few frames for no reason whatsoever; this is a short-term technique that should be used sparingly, but the director of Harvard Man shot the entire movie this way, and it made me want to scream. Then there is the music; it's just awful, and even worse it is constant and far too loud most of the time. I guess a lot of it is supposed to sound Italian or something, even though the Mafia bit is not that important to the film. The inclusion of Ray Allen, an actual basketball player, in the movie also makes no sense. When Allen's character talks to Grenier, both of them seem to be in a race to see who can say his lines the fastest, and Allen tries so hard not to look like a professional basketball player that he ends up looking just as bad as everyone around him on the court. Just when you think things can't possibly get any worse, we are taken along for an extended LSD trip in which all the voices the character hears building up inside his head assault our own ears as well in a rising crescendo. This, in conjunction with all the other problems, qualifies this film as pure and utter torture. I have no idea why Sarah Michelle Gellar chose to participate in Harvard Man, but it almost has to be a decision she now regrets.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Talented actors, bad script, November 11, 2002
By Jim (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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After reading the synaposis about sex, drugs and gambling on the video cover in which Sarah Gellar, Joey Adams,and Rebecca Gayheart are present, I could only anticipate the sexy possibilities that could be forthcoming.
Unfortunately, the lack of any interesting storyline in the plot killed any notion of that even 1/2 hour into the movie.
It's hard to even imagine that Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) would even be able to bed both the Professor Chesney, and his girlfriend Cindy even if he is on the basketball team. We never know what Jensen's personality is really like except that he is into drugs. Is he smart, funny, what got him into Harvard? Who knows & who cares?
Gellar is acceptable as the daughter of a mobster. Adams is the most enjoyable part of the movie, with her raspy, sexy voice. She makes sense and is the glue that holds the stories together . The sex scenes, and they are not explicit, contain a lot of noices, but are boring, and except for Cindy and Alan's performance in the woods, none of it even matters.
The Director does amuse a little with some camera effects after Jensen takes some LSD, but those again, get boring and overused.
The performance of Stoltz and Gayheart as FBI agents is a joke. (I just ruined the only twist of the movie.
This was a long 2 hours. I hope Harvard is better than this!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of Toback's best but still interesting
Alan Jensen (Adrien Grenier), the point guard on the Harvard basketball team, enjoys an exciting college life. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Richard Ross

3.0 out of 5 stars 3 Star Review
This movie is okay, alittle werid exspecially once a certain someone takes some pills and the rest of the movie is alittle werid from then on out. Read more
Published on March 13, 2007 by Bryan W. Diantonio

2.0 out of 5 stars meh~
could've been better. sarah michelle gellar isn't so great in it and niether is rebecca gayheart. i love the scene when adrian grenier's character is rolling. Read more
Published on February 23, 2007 by N. okezie

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Dissappointing !!!
Like most reviewers, I rented this movie because Sarah Michelle Geller was in it. I am a HUGE fan of Buffy and her other movies such as Scream and the Grudge. Read more
Published on July 29, 2006 by Tara Plumeri

2.0 out of 5 stars Sarah Michelle Gellar could have chosen better.
The only reason why I decided to buy this movie was because Sarah Michelle Gellar was in it. And well that's maybe because I am the biggest obsessor of Sarah Michelle since her... Read more
Published on February 12, 2006 by Michael

1.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, this movie was terrible.
I dearly love Sarah Michelle Gellar and Joey Lauren Adams. The whole reason I bought this movie in a $5.99 bargain bin was because of the two of them. Read more
Published on January 12, 2006 by Rainne

2.0 out of 5 stars one big headache of a movie..
James Toback on occasion makes the good films, Two Girls and a Guy and Black & White being two good movies he has done... Read more
Published on December 11, 2005 by Mike Bolts

3.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected appraisal for this film's intelligence !
Like most viewers -I suppose- I initially felt curious about the film because of Sarah Michelle Gellar; yet how much more I got, than just SMG- for this film wasn't, first and... Read more
Published on August 20, 2005 by Elisabeth COTTIER FÁBIÁN

5.0 out of 5 stars I CAN'T LET YOU GO...
So if you're reading this then you're digging
deep enough to deserve a short cut to finding
the first song at the opening of this ambitious
James Toback... Read more
Published on August 16, 2005 by Ian E. Renga

5.0 out of 5 stars call me crazy
I actually liked this movie. Initially, the cheesy DVD cover and the creepy-looking leading man grabbed my attention. Read more
Published on August 8, 2005 by Ann

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