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Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen
  • Summary: Tommy is fresh out of prison and ready for a second chance in life. Enter his loving sister Vicky, her cynical husband Ed and their family. Tommy moves in with them, and when it comes to explaining to Grandma Tommy’s whereabouts for the last three years, the truth-challenged Vicky has the ananswer: “He’s been in France!” (Freestyle Releasing)
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Negative: 4 out of 7
  1. A harmless little mess of a movie whose cast you've mostly heard of, including Tim Allen, who also directed.
  2. Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    30
    Tim Allen returns to lowest-common-denominator comedy as the star of his own ill-advised, irritating directorial debut.
  3. John Peaslee's Screenwriting 101-style script has merely left everyone floating on their own.
  4. Each actor appears to have received the script to a different movie, while Allen adds his own directorial touch of sexual vulgarity.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. SammieT
    8
    This movie was pretty ok. I think it could have been better, but I did enjoy myself. I found it to be a nice break from all the action movies and whatnot that's out right now. Expand
  2. JerryF.
    7
    Crazy on the Outside is a funny relief from today's high stress world for everybody.
  3. KerryS
    1
    Terrible movie, gave it a 1 instead of 0 only because of the quality of the cast, for whom I feel sympathy. Lame, stupid, unfunny, dumb site gags, awkward pacing, clunky directing. Expand
  4. 1
    Tim Allen creates a film thats all about him. One would think with all that "star firepower" that this film might cook. It fails as a comedy, as a drama and as a film. Karle Warren (Loren -Judging Amy) has 2 lines. Ray Liotta plays a heavy but his role is not defined. Sigourney Weaver plays Allens sister yet her role is more of a cameo. In fact the heavy hitters in the film are mostly cameo roles. A waste of time but a payday for the actors. Expand