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Snow Day
Paramount Pictures


4.7

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MPAA RATING: PG for brief mild peril and language

Starring Chris Elliott, Mark Webber, Jean Smart, and Chevy Chase

When a school in upstate New York is snowed in, a group of students steal a snow plow in an attempt to keep school closed indefinitely.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Will McRobb Chris Viscardi
DIRECTED BY:	Chris Koch
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: October 3, 2000 Video: October 3, 2000 Theatrical: February 11, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	89 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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New York Post Lou Lumenick

Makes the most of its wintry settings and never insults the audience's intelligence -- no mean feat for a family film. It's a real crowd-pleaser.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A light-as-powder family comedy.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

In this day of overstuffed action flicks and dumbed-down "comedies," (Snow Day) is kinda refreshing.

Chicago Tribune Lou Carlozo

Succeeds in bringing the best attributes of Nickelodeon TV to the big screen.

Portland Oregonian Bob Thomas

The humor is on the level of flatulence by a chubby boy.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Offers an amusing break to the undemanding.

LA Weekly Nicole Campos

Fortunately, everything comes together splendidly in the last act, and the kids and grown-ups are all first-rate.

TV Guide Steve Simels

Mildly amusing and as obvious as it is good-natured.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It's an original and rather clever premise, but first-time director Chris Koch doesn't do anything with it.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Not a waste of time, but not quite in control of its destination.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

An uninspired assembly of characters and story lines that interrupt one another.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Unless you have a craving to watch a sluggish Ski-Doo race or want to admire Chase dressed as a hula dancer, consider this the cinematic equivalent of yellow snow.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Takes a vacation from quality.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Chevy Chase looks tired, Pam Grier looks embarrassed, and pop star Iggy Pop gives a performance that -- if you can believe it -- is even sillier than his name.

TNT RoughCut Graham Verdon

Wear your boots to this one, but because of the crap, not the snow.

Los Angeles Times Robin Rauzi

Isn't for teens, it's for the kids who aspire to be teens.

Village Voice Lael Loewenstein

A family film that's about as fluffy as fresh powder.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Chase is so dull in this film, he looks as if he's sleepwalking.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

This grasping comedy targets kids of all ages but will please no one as it exploits exhausted ideas about adolescence.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

There's little here to offend anyone, and even less here to excite anyone.

The New York Times A. O. Scott

Fails both as arrested-development farce and as teen-age romantic comedy.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Even Snow Day's winter wonderland looks fake.

The average user rating for this movie is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
This was a very good movie!

Ryan M. gave it a 0:
It tries so hard to be funny that the plan backfires in the process.

Cole L. gave it a 1:
A cheesy movie with bad laughs and just down right not funny acting. At the end I got up and said, "I just wasted 89 minutes of my life to just sit in front of the screen and rot."

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Snow Day Paramount Pictures

Snow Day
Paramount Pictures