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You can't blame George Carlin or Ben Stiller's acting--they did the best they could with the material. There were even some genuinely funny moments. The premise is interesting--2 janitors discover a way to make a killing in the stock market by digging through the trash of their brokerage offices. But once they start making some money, the laughs become fewer as the movie turns into a version of the "inmates running the asylum" and lays on the working-class hero crap pretty thick. There are too many unbelievable scenarios that I felt the comedy was reaching quite hard to get a laugh. Nothing subtle here, even though the 2 main actors are capable of more.The funniest guy in this movie was actually the prick stockbroker, who was supposed to be the straight man.Avoid this one.
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