Metacritic Film

Dick

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, and Will Ferrell

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sex-related humor, drug content and language

Sony Pictures Entertainment
Comedy
94 minutes | Color
Canada / USA
Released In Theaters August 4, 1999

After taking a wrong turn on a White House tour, teens Betsy Jobs (Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Williams) stumble across a room packed full of presidential secrets. To find out exactly what the girls know, "Tricky Dick" Nixon (Hedaya) himself appoints them as official White House dog walkers. Suddenly and accidentally, the two girls are swept up in the political intrigue of the world's most famous break-in: Watergate. (Columbia Tristar)

WRITTEN BY
Andrew Fleming
Sheryl Longin

DIRECTED BY
Andrew Fleming

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

65 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Entertainment Weekly
A gaily funny, shrewdly inventive satire.
88 New York Daily News
Dunst and Williams...turn ditsiness into a frenetic comic duet.
88 Chicago Sun-Times
A sly little comic treasure.
88 San Francisco Examiner
Madhouse satire manages to disarm the second you realize it's laughing with you - and sometimes harder.
83 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A highly original, often hilarious, what-if farce about Watergate.
80 Los Angeles Times
So sharp and funny it should appeal to all ages.
75 Boston Globe
Hedaya is sublime.
75 New York Post
A gleefully cunning comedy.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
A breezy, occasionally funny spoof.
70 Village Voice
Most conveniently synopsized as Romy and Michelle's Watergate Adventure.
70 Salon.com
A flinty and deeply enjoyable little comedy. There's genius in its absurdity.
70 Film.com
Starting small and building steadily, the movie reaps some fall-down funny laughs.
70 Film.com
An accessible but savvy political satire.
70 Film.com
A tasty/tacky treat.
60 The New York Times
An uproariously dizzy satire...Hedaya has created the year's funniest film caricature.
60 TV Guide Andrew Fleming
A topical comedy that's about 25 years too late.
60 Chicago Reader
Silly and shameless stuff that made me laugh quite a lot.
60 TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey
An impossible, yet funny scenario.
40 Time
Sells out real satirical possibilities to its marketing potential as teen fluff. Everyone loses -- except Hedaya, who keeps faith with his character's nutsiness.
20 LA Weekly
The limp title says it all.
16 Portland Oregonian
Dick works best as a catalog of style: It's the story and the acting that are the window dressing.

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