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Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
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12 April 1995 (USA)
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You'll laugh because it's not your family. You'll cry because it is.
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Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program...
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A kind of serious comedy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Al Franken | ... | Stuart Smalley | |
| Laura San Giacomo | ... | Julia | |
| Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | Donnie - The Smalley Family | |
| Shirley Knight | ... | Mom - The Smalley Family | |
| Harris Yulin | ... | Dad - The Smalley Family | |
| Lesley Boone | ... | Jodie - The Smalley Family | |
| John Link Graney | ... | Kyle - The Smalley Family | |
| Marjorie Lovett | ... | Aunt Paula - The Smalley Family | |
| Walter Robles | ... | Smalley Uncle - The Smalley Family (as Walt Robles) | |
| Erik Cord | ... | Smalley Uncle - The Smalley Family | |
| Denver Mattson | ... | Smalley Uncle - The Smalley Family | |
| Grant Hoover | ... | Young Stuart - Flashbacks | |
| Cory Milano | ... | Young Donnie - Flashbacks | |
| Michelle Horn | ... | Young Jodie - Flashbacks | |
| Harris Laskaway | ... | Mr. Dimmit - Flashbacks (as Harris Laskawy) |
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Stuart Stupid - Eine Familie zum Kotzen (Germany)
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Rated PG-13 for language and substance abuse.
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Brazil:96 min | USA:95 min
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Revealing mistakes: When Stuart is reliving his recurring dream about saving his father's life, you can see the top of the airbag while the stunt man is falling from the roof.
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[Opening of Stuart's show "Daily Affirmations"]
Stuart Smalley: I deserve good things, I am entitled to my share of happiness. I refuse to beat myself up. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with.
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Stuart Smalley: I deserve good things, I am entitled to my share of happiness. I refuse to beat myself up. I am an attractive person. I am fun to be with.
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Bob Saget/TLC (#20.19)" (1995)
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I Want To Be Happy
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I am a fan of Al Frankin and had wanted to see this movie for quite a while. As it turns out, that was 12 years, but I finally saw Stuart Saves His Family on HBO. The short answer is that I liked it a lot, but not for the reasons that I was expecting to like it for. The movie was funny, but not really laugh out loud funny. The characters were too well developed for "laugh out loud". It would have felt mean to laugh at the alcoholic father who has no clue that he has a problem. The stoner brother who eventually figures out he's wasted his life. The enabler mother. The obese sister who deals with her stress by eating pound cake. I found myself rooting for these people, and not really wanting to laugh at them. There are certainly funny parts of the movie, and Al Frankin is a funny guy, but I think that the problem with Stuart Saves His Family is that it is too well done for an audience who want Wayne's World (One of my favorites, BTW) and instead got a serious movie about dysfunctional people with very real problems where you laugh with them and not at them.