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  • 2002
  • R
  • Velocity Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Velocity Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
Teddy Bears' Picnic

Summary A comic junket behind-the-scenes of the world's most exclusive power-broker retreat. The true story: the richest, most powerful white men in America gather each summer in Northern California for a super secret retreat that takes them back to their sophomore year in college. For fifty-one weeks a year they run the country. For one week th...

Directed By: Harry Shearer

Written By: Harry Shearer

  • 2002
  • R
  • Velocity Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Velocity Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 20 m

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary A comic junket behind-the-scenes of the world's most exclusive power-broker retreat. The true story: the richest, most powerful white men in America gather each summer in Northern California for a super secret retreat that takes them back to their sophomore year in college. For fifty-one weeks a year they run the country. For one week th...

Directed By: Harry Shearer

Written By: Harry Shearer

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for Shearer's radio show and his ''Simpson'' voice-overs.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
40
Does for industrialists, politicians, pro-football owners and lawyers what Christopher Guest's "Best in Show' did for dog owners -- but without the skewer.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
40
A satirist such as Shearer should need a license to go hunting on terrain so rich with easy targets; he tries to bag them all, and it leaves the film to founder in aimlessness.
By Paul Malcolm FULL REVIEW
38
Falls short of the mark, content to shoot fish in a barrel.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
30
It's utterly frustrating: What could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent.
By Robert Wilonsky FULL REVIEW
25
The satire is unfocused, while the story goes nowhere. Too bad. The material is ripe for satire.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
12
Beyond-lame satire.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Visionbox Pictures, Century of Progress Productions
Release Date Mar 29, 2002
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating R
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Tagline For fifty-one weeks a year, they run the country. For one week, they run amok.
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