| | | Some lessons can't be taught in the classroom.
Features: DVD, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Scene Access, No Longer Produced
Alan jensen is an all-star harvard man. He's ambitious,intelligent and star on the college basketball team. Entercindy bandolini, a sexy college cheerleader and mob daughterwith all the right moves, and the right beauty, money and powerto lure alan right where she wants him.
"...a rowdy and fast-paced thrill ride." Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
"...a fast and clever con-gone-wrong comedy." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"...at the heart of this film is the notion that we each have to do what we can to maximize our blip of existence in this world." Jeffrey Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
This innovative drama from writer and director James Toback (BUGSY, BLACK AND WHITE) follows the travails of Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier), a Harvard student determined to live life to the fullest and find the ultimate truth. He gets high regularly, and is sleeping with Holy Cross cheerleader Cindy Bandolini (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who also happens to be a mobster's daughter. Simultaneously, Alan is carrying on an illicit affair with his philosophy professor, Chesney Cort (Joey Lauren Adams), a woman with a vast sexual appetite. When his parents lose their Kansas home in a tornado, Alan is desperate to help them financially. He turns to Cindy's father for a loan and is soon entrenched in a high-stakes gambling scheme. But all is not as it seems and Alan soon finds himself in over his head with many aspects of his life: his drug use, the women in his life, and even the FBI. Grenier is endearing as the truth-seeking Alan, and as a tough-talking Mafia princess, Gellar steps far away from her television persona as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eric Stoltz and Rebecca Gayheart lend their talents in supporting roles that add to the film's twisting storyline.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Audio: English Dolby Surround | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Director Commentary | | Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 10/29/2002 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 8053-D | | UPC: 00658149805323 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Rare and riveting....A wild ride that relies on more than special effects..." 07/25/2002 p.77Los Angeles Times
"...A fast and clever con-gone-wrong comedy that reflects the writer-director's characteristic blend of the intellectual and the criminal..." 07/05/2002 p.C2 New York Times
"...HARVARD MAN brims with a boyish, nervous energy..." 06/28/2002 p.E13 Box Office
"...Grenier is a likable searcher, while Gellar is perfectly cast....Eric Stoltz, clearly having a blast, is terrific....The story closes on a surprisingly poignant note, leaving viewers with challenging questions to ponder..." 08/01/2002 p.58 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Original, quirky, interesting..." 07/28/2002 p.5 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
Toback has made a career out of confessing his character flaws (his film The Pick-Up Artist touched on another predilection), and because by turning his addictions into movies, he has succeeded in controlling them in his life. No other American director is so simultaneously in love with lofty ideas and low-life, and Harvard Man is a typical Toback film, involving as it does a fixed basketball game and thorny philosophical discussions. He makes crime movies for the thinking audience. - Roger Ebert
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