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Stuart Saves His Family

	Stuart Saves His Family
	by Paramount Sales Rank: 7342 Price: $19.95

Though it seems like a one-joke premise, this spinoff of Al Franken's <I>Saturday Night Live</I> character, self-help nerd Stuart Smalley, actually has some substance. And, in fact, it offers a message that wouldn't be out of place at an Al-Anon meeting (although with the laughs). Stuart, fired from his cable TV self-help show, goes home to resolve a family crisis. Dad (Harris Yulin) is an abusive drunk, Mom (Shirley Knight) is an enabler, Sis is an over-eater, and Brother has a problem with his temper. The film turns serious, but Franken actually makes the drama interesting, using humor to leaven it. And he brings a certain sympathy and resolve to the lisping, cross-eyed Stuart. To be sure, it's not your typical <I>SNL</I> movie. <I>--Marshall Fine</I> *Viewer Reviews* There are about ten laughs in this film by smarmfart Al Franken. Worth seeing once. But Franken's brilliant creation is Stuart himself. Full disclosure: I loath Franken's politics and most of his other humour, but this work is a brilliant exception. Stuart Saves his family is an overlong extension of a SNL skit about "Stuart" the over twelve-stepped psychological casualty of our continuously self-indulgent selves. Rather than overcome his traumas, Stuart nurses them like a bacteriological growth in an inner Petri dish. He stumbles through a series of activities where his therapiezed world view provides conflict with others functioning normally (operating thetans), and abnormally (everyone in his family). I never really got the works of LRH, but his paranoia about "the Psycholos are coming" pretty much sums up the character Stuart....this is the kind of human being you get after all that. But this is not gut-busting humour. This is light comedy that makes you think, and does have an unobjectionable uplifting element. Back To Top
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