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My Boss's Daughter
Dimension Films / Miramax Films

My Boss's Daughter reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 16 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.7 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, drug content and language

Starring Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Jeffrey Tambor, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen, Carmen Electra, Terence Stamp, and Molly Shannon

An outrageous, fast-and-rowdy romantic comedy about a young man (Kutcher) whose quest for the girl of his dreams (Reid) is interrupted by a constant flow of calamities. One by one, a barrage of wild and crazy visitors take over the house he's supposed to be watching and turn it upside-down, as well as inside out. (Dimension Films)


GENRE(S): Romance  
WRITTEN BY: David Dorfman  
DIRECTED BY: David Zucker  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 3, 2004 
Video: February 3, 2004 
Theatrical: August 22, 2003 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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60
Village Voice Ed Park
A pleasurably intense burst of anarchy with no moral in sight, thank God.
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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
My Boss's Daughter is not awful. It is a genial youth comedy that serves Kutcher well as a vehicle. That's it. That's all it tries to be.
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30
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
A fine supporting cast manages to keep this comedy respirating for 85 minutes, but personally I believe in a movie's right to die.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Not much to laugh at.
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30
The New York Times A.O. Scott
This muddled comedy of confusion feels as if it were a Farrelly brothers' comedy that has sat exposed to the elements long past its expiration date.
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is a movie that boggles the mind: a bad-taste comedy that makes the average effort by the Farrelly Brothers (mysteriously thanked in the credits) look like a Merchant-Ivory film.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
Tries screwball and gross-out comedy and fails on both counts.
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20
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
This may be celebrity prankster (and pinup du jour) Ashton Kutcher’s most elaborate practical joke to date: the gag being that this is a real movie and that he’s a real movie star.
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20
Film Threat Rick Kisonak
A movie so thoroughly cretinous the people who made it couldn't get even the punctuation in the title right.
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20
Variety Robert Koehler
Zucker, a master of whacked-out visual comedy during his "Airplane!" era, drops the ball here.
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20
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Director David Zucker has fallen a long way since the days of “Airplane” -- here, he seems to think endless hilarity can be milked from an animatronic owl and a running gag about urination that even the French would reject.
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20
TV Guide Angel Cohn
Outrageous and often disgusting film.
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12
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Carmen Electra in a wet tee-shirt saves about five seconds of this movie. The rest of the 85 minutes is unredeemable.
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12
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Brain-dead variant of "Risky Business."
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12
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Having also starred in "Dude, Where's My Car" and "Just Married," Kutcher is becoming a stoopid-comedy specialist.
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10
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
An abysmal screwball comedy that relies heavily on idiocy from both sides of the screen.
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10
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Moronic. idiotic. Insulting. Pathetic. But enough with the sweet talk.
0
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Zucker directs this mess like a substitute teacher soldiering through a day's work for a day's pay at a decertified school.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.7 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

A Movie Critic gave it an8:
Come on, people, this was funny! It's the type of high-concept comedy we see so little of nowadays and the cast was really good and it was just a fun movie. I think it's underrated. It's not trying to be Shakespeare, it's just trying to be a funny high-concept comedy. It was successful, although it gets a little bogged down at the end.

Alefiya gave it a0:
Absolute trash! Completely devoid of a storyline and an incredible waste of time!

Phil L. gave it a0:
I couldn't be forced to laugh at this movie at gunpoint. I sat watching this movie and after 10 minutes, could not bare to watch any more. Quite possibly the worst excuse for entertainment I have ever seen in my life.

charla g gave it a9:
Chaotic, but funny!!!

Chris M. gave it a 0:
Awful...just bloody awful.

[Anonymous] gave it a 0:
Let's just say it was turned off half-way through. Enough said!

Curt S. gave it a 10:
Tara Reid IS FRICKEN HOTT!!!!

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