Academia meets street smarts when Monty Kessler (Brendan Fraser), a graduate student struggling to finish his program, is convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University and finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage.
September 26, 1974 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
6 March 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
13 January 1966, Lewiston, Maine, USA
30 September 1966, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 November 1973, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
29 January 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 February 1943, Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 July 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 June 1969, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 May 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 August 1955, Illinois, USA
1 January 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 30, 2002
A shaggy dog drama about the education of one upwardly bound college student.
October 09, 2005
Obviously inspired by the success of Scent of a Woman, this one could have been called Scent of a Bum.
July 05, 2004
Do you amuse me, Joe Pesci? No, you do not.
May 23, 2012
This movie is predictable from scene one, though that wouldn't be a problem if it had a good script, good performances and solid direction. But it doesn't.
July 25, 2003
Well meaning drama but oversimplifies a lot and plays the death card too easily.
April 21, 2009
A politically correct, vastly sentimental and ultimately insincere saga of the friendship between a kind homeless man, played by Joe Pesci, and a guilt-ridden Harvard student, played byBrendan Frazer.
March 19, 2003
One of the few films I've ever walked out on. Pesci and Fraser serve up unsympathetic and grating characters.
