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Dick
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sex-related humor, drug content and language
Starring
Kirsten Dunst,
Michelle Williams,
Dan Hedaya,
and
Will Ferrell
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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Fleming
Sheryl Longin
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Andrew Fleming
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 14, 1999
Video: December 14, 1999
Theatrical: August 4, 1999
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A gaily funny, shrewdly inventive satire.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Dunst and Williams...turn ditsiness into a frenetic comic duet.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A sly little comic treasure.

88
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Madhouse satire manages to disarm the second you realize it's laughing with you - and sometimes harder.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A highly original, often hilarious, what-if farce about Watergate.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
So sharp and funny it should appeal to all ages.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Hedaya is sublime.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A gleefully cunning comedy.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A breezy, occasionally funny spoof.

70
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Most conveniently synopsized as Romy and Michelle's Watergate Adventure.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
A flinty and deeply enjoyable little comedy. There's genius in its absurdity.

70
Film.com
Gemma Files
Starting small and building steadily, the movie reaps some fall-down funny laughs.
70
Film.com
Tom Keogh
An accessible but savvy political satire.

70
Film.com
John Hartl
A tasty/tacky treat.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Silly and shameless stuff that made me laugh quite a lot.

60
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
An impossible, yet funny scenario.
40
Time
Richard Schickel
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
Manohla Dargis
The limp title says it all.

16
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Dick works best as a catalog of style: It's the story and the acting that are the window dressing.

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