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  • Starring: Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy
  • Summary: Timothy Dunphy, (aka. "Dunph," "Dildo") has a broken home, a three-legged dog and a full-blown attraction to trouble. After crashing into a parked police car, his father (Baldwin) packs him off to prep school -- where he's out of place, outclassed and seriously outnumbered. Now he's about to show everyone that even he can get a piece of class. (Miramax)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 32
  3. Negative: 5 out of 32
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    90
    Wonderful...It's funny and offbeat, sometimes raucous, but it still manages to come at you in gentle layers.
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Bill Gallo
    60
    Surprisingly tender and resolutely unpostmodern.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    So unsuccessful in so many different ways that maybe the whole project was doomed.

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