Stuart Saves His Family (1995) User Reviews

No belly laughs, but good.

[Derek237 · 6/10 · 29 August 2013]

A not-so-well-remembered SNL movie based on a not-so-well-remembered SNL sketch. I watched it last night, and I don't think I've ever seen it before so it was kind of surprising at how unfunny it was. Not necessarily in a bad way, but it just felt more like an offbeat drama than a comedy. It dealt with real issues and didn't have pristine solutions and I've left it feeling contemplative and, to be honest, a little sad, which is sort of a compliment and sort of isn't. But the acting in the movie is great. I have this idea in my head of Al Franken as this gruff, intense comedic force but here he's so soft-spoken and calm so you gotta hand it to him, the guy is COMMITTED. Laura San Giacomo is also excellent and has a heartbreaking little speech. And Vincent D'Onofrio as the pothead slacker brother is good stuff. I don't know. Not sure how I altogether feel about it. I'd probably give it a 6/10, not great but by no means bad. I think it's on Netflix. Check it out.

Franken is funny, most of movie is not

[HAL-98 · 4/10 · 15 October 2000]

I'm not a big Al Franken fan, but I must admit that his Stuart

character is hilarious. I've actually met people like Stuart. It

is a great parody of the pop psychology "getting in-touch

with your feelings" movement and Franken is brilliant in

his portrayal. The problem is that the movie is just too long,

the characters over stereotyped, and at times the film

seems to drag on and on. I did enjoy the character of the evil dyke station manager(Franken's Boss). She could have been a James Bond villain. For all its weaknesses and flaws, I did enjoy

parts of this movie, but it could have been done much better.

not quite good enough or smart enough, but kind of likable

[lee_eisenberg · 5/10 · 22 May 2007]

"Stuart Saves His Family" came out before I had heard of Al Franken, so I took no notice. After I read Franken's book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot and Other Observations", I decided to check it out. It turns out that there's not really very much here. Franken plays Stuart Smalley, a character from "Saturday Night Live", and the movie portrays him having a crazy family. Why do movies and TV shows always seem to portray families as nearly mental? I actually giggled when he resorts to name-calling ("You are a big...!), but it seemed like the movie didn't have much of a point beyond that. Then again, few "SNL" skits make good movies. Of course, I might just be too tough on Al Franken; having read his political satires, I expect the highest quality from him.

So I don't recommend it. I do think that Al Franken would make a really good senator (in case you haven't heard, he's running for senate in Minnesota), but for entertainment, he should stick to mocking the Bush administration and right-wing commentators.

not at all what I expected

[ajdagreat · 23 August 2001]

I rented this movie expecting a movie like "A Night at the Roxbury", "Superstar", or "Coneheads" - not a great plot or great acting, but a lot of laugh-out-loud, tasteless jokes that will cause me to feel guilty for laughing later. Not very good movies critic-wise, but I need a good tasteless comedy every now and then.

However, "Stuart Saves His Family" is different. It had a bittersweet plot and some pretty good acting. It turned out to be a good movie. On the other hand, it wasn't tastelessly laugh-out-loud funny. In fact, I only remember laughing once in the whole movie.

So did "Stuart Saves His Family" accomplish its goal, or did it fail miserably? I'm not quite sure. I still don't know what to think of this movie. I'd say it's worth renting just for its uniqueness.

A feeble three-minute stit stretched way, way too long....

[smokehill retrievers · 1/10 · 21 June 2004]

I picked this up mostly because I recall the Sat Night Live skits as being good. Unfortunately, stretching this lame plot out to feature length is all that Franken did, and it left us feeling just ripped off, and certainly not entertained.

Franken's humor, ham-handed and obvious at its best, occasionally works for short bursts, but this guy apparently just doesn't understand writing or plot development when it gets past the three-minute mark, and he apparently feels everyone is too dumb for subtlety. I knew kids like this in junior high school and always felt sorry for them. But I didn't want to spend over five minutes with them, either. Sympathy only goes so far.

Mercifully, the generally pitiful reception this film got should encourage Franken to stick to three-minute schtick for high-school audiences.

Don't pay money to see this thing, whatever you do.

Uneven, but good

[zetes · 7/10 · 6 March 2014]

Whenever trying to memorialize the recently departed, I tend to seek out lesser known films by them, or at least films that I haven't seen. I'd always wanted to see this film, adapted from the Stuart Smalley sketches from Saturday Night Live. I remember Siskel & Ebert liking the film quite a bit back in the day, plus the star is now my Senator. And this is actually quite a good film. What's most surprising about it is it's actually quite serious for what it is. In fact, trying to get the serious subject to work while also trying to keep the same style of comedy the sketches had on SNL makes it a little tonally uneven, but I love what they were trying. Al Franken stars as Stuart Smalley, who hosts a cable access show called Daily Affirmations, where he reveals his many problems to his small audience and tries to work through them. As the film opens, his producer fires him. Soon after, his aunt dies so he goes back home to Minneapolis for the funeral. His family is hugely dysfunctional, with many drinking and weight problems. He tries to help. The film takes the problems entirely seriously. I mean, there is comedy, but the family dysfunction is never the butt of the joke. Al Franken is very good and the character is given more subtlety than he had on SNL. Vincent D'Onofrio plays his younger brother, Harris Yulin his father, Shirley Knight his mother and Lesley Boone his sister. Laura San Giacomo and Julia Sweeney also co-star as Stuart's friends. Not a great movie, but a nice one.

They all must have been on crack!

[Dccra1 · 1/10 · 4 July 2000]

I guess I'm not being very fair, and maybe I shouldn't comment on this film, because on the SSHF's "main detail" page where it says, "I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it" probably means that one should watch this movie in it's entirety in order to comment on it. I normally can handle the worst of movies until the end, but not this one! (I couldn't finish "It's Pat" either, sorry SNL!) Half way through it I realized that this rare occurrence of me having to stop the madness was necessary for my mental well being.

I can tell you how much I hated the premise, I can tell you how much this movie bored me, I can tell you how much I hated all the characters, especially Stuart's, but I'm not gonna do that! Instead, I want to focus on something that did interest me about this film, the IMDb's User rating and the demographics thereof. Maybe I was only slightly stunned to see that the IMDb's user rating for this film was 5.2 (it should have been at the very least a 2.2, and that's kind), but I think the demographics concerned me the most. It was hard to believe that males under 18 rated this movie a 9.2!, and I don't know what to think of the 33 persons that gave this movie a 10!, except that they all must have been on crack! There was hope for my demographic however, males 30-44 (I'm 32)gave it a 5. Personally, and I'm sure with no surprise, I gave it a big, thick 1! People, please, I implore you...put down the crackpipes!

In its own way, the best SNL-character based film ever

[somehope · 8/10 · 19 November 2008]

For those you who don't know that Al Franken became a political author/congressional candidate, he was a funny comedian who had entertained "Saturday Night Live" audiences since the 70's, and into the 1990's (off-and-on). His most famous character was a self-help, for lack of a better word, addict; i.e., his character was addicted to self-help groups, sponsors, 12 step meetings, etc., because he lacked or was coming to terms with his low self-confidence everyday and was trying to spreading self-esteem to others through a fictional cable access show on SNL called "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley."

He would say things like "Doggone it, people like me." Okay, that's a lousy summation of an SNL character made into a film, but if I told you about two blues singing brothers who were wanted by all of Chicago ... of two rock n' roll delinquents who had their own cable show ... or two party guys whose heads moved when they heard "What is Love ..." ... would you know what the hell the fess is about in every case? If you want to look up Stuart on YouTube, or DVD feel free. He was funny, at times. But for this movie, know that it is both funny and sad (in a dark humor way) as we see a child of alcoholics and food addicts overcome his past, this film is a pretty damn good one. Directed by Harold Ramis, it doesn't go for any real forced SNL-inspired laughs, even though there are a lot in there if you want to look. The laughs basically occur because they come from pain, comedy's actual twin. There is a both sad and happy ending (or is it happy and sad?) from this film, but its never forced because Ramis, Franken, Vincent D'Onofrio, Juila Sweeny, and Laura San Giacomo know how to play the tightrope between pain and humor. It's not perfect, but its easily one of the best SNL character movies ever made, and one of the best about family alcoholism.

A really nice, surprising movie

[orindad · 7/10 · 11 May 2006]

This movie is so much better than anything you'd expect. Needless to say, most of the films based on SNL characters are pretty lame, and this one slipped under the radar so quickly, you might assume it's another "It's Pat". It's not! If you like the Stuart Smalley character, you'll of course be more disposed to liking the film. But even those previously unfamiliar with the 12-step junkie will find a sweet and surprisingly honest story here -- one that both pokes fun at self-help groups and acknowledges that they can work. There are plenty of laughs; and in its treatment of Stuart's highly dysfunctional family of origin, this film achieves something near-great. Watch and see. And "get yourself to a pound cake!"

Dear God in heaven

[chrissch · 3/10 · 12 July 2001]

First, full disclosure. I don't like Al Franken. I've never liked Al Franken. I don't think Al Franken is funny. So it's unlikely that I'd ever like an Al Franken movie.

But even setting that aside, "Stuart Saves His Family" is another in a line of Saturday Night Live acts that tried to translate into a movie and didn't make it. ("The Blues Brothers" is the only one that did.) "Stuart" stands in good company with "It's Pat," "Wayne's World," and "The Coneheads." Why didn't these four acts make good movies? Lots of reasons, I'm sure, but the biggest is that -- except for the Coneheads -- the basic premise just wasn't that funny to start with. And stretching a mildly funny 5-minute SNL skit into a feature-length movie doesn't make a mildly funny movie. It makes a pathetic, tedious movie, and that's just what "Stuart" is.

Even though that's what I expected, I watched "Stuart" with a fellow 12-Step friend because we both thought we'd at least get some good 12-Step insider jokes. But "Stuart" doesn't even have that. And after about 45 minutes, we turned to each other and without speaking a word, nodded agreement and turned it off.

If you *really like* Al Franken, you *might* like "Stuart." If not, run away. Run like the wind.

Still totally hilarious after all these years

[banderle · 8/10 · 10 October 2005]

I recently recalled the Stuart Smalley affirmation, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, etc...", as a joke in a conversation with a coworker, and felt inspired to watch this film again. Note the fact that Stuart's "affirmation" has the distinction of being one of those rare TV/film buzzlines that become part of American pop vocabulary, and you already have an insight to the quality and staying power of Al Franken's humor, and of this movie as well.

I was delighted to find that indeed, "Stuart Saves His Family" was just as gut-bustingly funny as it was 10 years ago at its release. For those who care about such things, this is a film that got thumbs up and good reviews from Ebert and the late Siskel, and generally good reviews across the board. There were the token detractors. But the truth is, this is one of the better-reviewed films to come out of the SNL/Lorne Michaels franchise because it is one of the better films.

The underlying joke in the film (and the Stuart character itself) is a satire of 12-step programs and the recovery "culture"--and there is one--and the humor admittedly is probably funnier to those connected to that culture, or to human services professionals. But even those not familiar with self-help and recovery philosophies will appreciate the humor in the blatant satire of the clichés and affirmations and even the demeanor of those who practice these philosophies. Phrases like "shame spiral," "making amends," "rage-aholic," "owning my anger," and the like, when lampooned, are simply funny in and of themselves, especially when delivered deadpan by characters like Stuart. Because there are so many of these clichés, they remain fresh and humorous throughout the film. And viewers will certainly recognize and hopefully be able to laugh with the movie at the dysfunctional qualities of their own families and friends reflected there.

In a nutshell, the Stuart character is a guy involved in multiple recovery programs to correct the effects of coming from an alcoholic family. He has decided to share his wisdom through a public access cable show showcasing recovery philosophies, and as the film unfolds he faces a number of humorous crises related to his show. At the same time, his dysfunctional family undergoes a series of crises related to the death of an aunt. We are introduced to Stuart's alcoholic father, guilt-inducing mother, anxious overeating sister, and addict brother. The story that unfolds about the family's response to the crises, with their chaotic family interactions and childhood flashbacks both hilarious and touching, ends up being woven back into the drama around Stuart's cable show for a satisfying, if not all-too-realistic, resolution.

The film has been lauded for being a comedy with depth, because it is at heart a story about families and relationships--all dysfunctional, of course. There are some scenes that literally are tear-jerkers in the film, dealing with the affects of alcoholism and broken relationships, as well as the hope that recovery philosophies can bring. Indeed, one of the rewarding things about the film is that the recovery culture is both the butt of the joke, and at the same time is correctly represented as having a real, positive impact in peoples' lives. Though as in real life, we find that for the Smalley family, not everything can be fixed. And that gives this film, surprisingly, a ring of authenticity.

The other thing that struck me this time around was that the movie has a number of very talented actors in the supporting cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Laura San Giacomo, Harris Yulin. Certainly this helped to carry the movie, but the screenplay is tight and the comedic timing of the dialog consistently right on. Whether you're looking for a good spoof of pop psychology and the recovery culture, dysfunctional families, or just a well-made comedy, this movie will satisfy.

I like him

[SnoopyStyle · 7/10 · 12 July 2020]

Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) is a small public cable access show in Chicago. Julia (Laura San Giacomo) is one of his many sponsors. He is a follower of multiple 12 steps programs. After blowing up on his show, he gets kicked off of public access cable. Aunt Paula dies and Stuart has to go home to deal with his family. Donnie (Vincent D'Onofrio) is his irresponsible brother. Jodie (Lesley Boone) is his overwhelmed sister. Shirley Knight and Harris Yulin play their parents.

This needs a little bit of simplification. Stuart needs to go home and stay there until everything is solved. He should drag Julia along with him. I like Stuart. I really like Stuart. I'm not a superfan of Stuart in SNL but I watched it off and on. In this movie, he's actually an interesting character. It's not a silly little skit. I like him even more here. I like that he's actually helpful in this movie. Doggonit I like him.

Terrible, especially Franken

[morrisonhimself · 1/10 · 9 January 2007]

Al Franken is so bad, he drags this otherwise bad movie down to terrible.

Laura San Giacomo is, though, great ... just not enough to save this mess.

Franken's diction is abysmal, almost as if he had some physical defect; he should never be allowed near a microphone. For that matter, he probably should not be allowed in front of a camera, either.

He must know somebody, because he has not anywhere near enough talent to be named the star of a movie, any movie, even one this bad.

After writing the above, some years later I saw him in an old "Saturday Night Live," and I realize I was understating the problem.

Franken was terrible even in those lousy skits. Worst of all, He Was Just Not Funny, even, or especially, in the dumb skits he himself wrote.

Laura San Giacomo, however, is so beautiful, so exotically beautiful, that one could almost put up with Franken just to be able to look at her. Almost. Better to watch her in something else. Anything else.

THIS IS ADDED: After reading comments by others, I understand better what motivated people to produce this awful movie. (It's still terrible.) I said "yes" to "Was this comment helpful?" even when I disagreed with the rating the commenter had given. Reason: It was indeed helpful.

I wish others would answer the question rather than saying "no" because they disagree with the opinion.

this is an underappreicated movie....

[nunyerbiz · 13 February 2001]

As far as SNL movies go it's definately above average, of course, that's comparing it to "It's Pat", "A Night at the Roxbury" and "Ladies Man"...

Still... this one hits more than it misses. If you have a dysfunctional family or can identify with any of Stuart's relatives, it's worth the hour and a half....

While it won't win any awards, it should be worth an hour and a half of your time... I give it 6/10 for the average person.... 8/10 if you have a highly diversified and dysfunctional family.

Better than most people think

[qssmith · 7/10 · 6 November 1998]

I heard bad things about this movie for a while, but I found it to be a decent movie. I'm not quite sure why most people dislike it so much.

A gem

[elisereid-29666 · 10/10 · 21 July 2020]

This is the first work of art I've ever seen that truly *gets* recovery, and this is coming from someone who is an eating disorder survivor. Not everything turns out great in the end, but that's the point! It's about accepting that you can't have everything you want, nor is recovery some sort of promised land where everything goes right and there is always a happy ending. But you can still enjoy yourself, and maybe find other people who understand. (And movies like this one that also understand). That's a pretty weighty message for an SNL spinoff movie that many people blow off, thinking it's only a dumb parody of self-help platitudes.

People who come from dysfunctional families will instantly get this movie, too. Sure, the dysfunction of Stuart's family is an exaggeration, but there are so many moments that will ring true to people that come from alcoholic folks. Hell, I do *not* come from alcoholic parents, and my family wasn't dysfunctional at all, but I still get it because I've seen so much such behavior elsewhere, so it doesn't even have to hit terribly close to home. The title is both misleading and revealing-Stuart does *not* save his family, but the title reflects not the idea that he does, but that he feels it's his job to do so. That he doesn't (or can't) hardly matters, because it's the intention that we relate to.

My opinion is, the world in 1995 wasn't ready for this movie. The world of 2020 may *still* not be ready for this movie, because this isn't your typical SNL movie, with laughs a mile a minute, or the kind of nutbar humor you get in movies like Wayne's World. There are some good laughs in it, though-especially if you've ever heard addicts talk about their experiences, and how they learned to see them with a certain perspective that makes horrible times sound funny. This movie really should have been aimed at them, instead of the SNL crowd, and if I were to teach about addiction and dysfunctional families to a class, I would incorporate this film into the lesson plan, no matter what else I'd have to juggle around to do it. It is that true to life, and it's like a magic mirror for those who've lived through it.

It's good enough, it's smart enough . . .

[adam b · 7/10 · 23 February 1999]

This really isn't a bad movie. It doesn't deliver as many belly laughs as Wayne's World, but it certainly surpasses Coneheads and It's Pat in the intelligence and humor department. It's not as good as the book this film was based on, and Al Franken can certainly be a lot funnier than this character allows him to be, but it's worth your time. People from dysfunctional families will probably like it better.

not what I expected yet loved it!

[skydvr38 · 8/10 · 31 January 2007]

surprisingly, what I thought would be a farce had some interesting depth. What's starts off as lampooning 12 step programs becomes a touching and somewhat tragic ride through recovery. Laced with humor, this is a dry, yet poignant study in recovery from 'our family of origin'. I watched this with several friends and we were stunned at the ending, namely,Stauart did not save all his family because it was their choice not to be saved. As Stuart says, he needed to move on with his life.Its easier to wear slippers than to carpet the whole world. True enough,you cannot fix others, particularly those who do not want to be fixed. Some revel in their misery or are so addicted to it some real peace would be disturbing. D'on't expect a major laugh riot here in this movie, expect the subtleties of humanity and conditions to give you a smirk, a grin,an 'aha' here and there. The real humor comes in Stuarts' journey. I salute the filmmakers for adding some really 'teary' moments.Alcoholism isn't fun. Perhapsthose touched by this disease,particularly those children (grown or not) who still ache from the hurts. You'll cheer Stauart for his own personal choices, not because he couldn't get his father into rehab.

Delusional and without insight.

[annuskavdpol · 7/10 · 20 December 2013]

This movie, Stuart saves his family, is about dysfunction. Stuart is especially incongruent. When his family members insult him and emotionally pierce him by putting him down, he smiles at them. This indicates that Stuart is out of touch with his emotions. Another way of communicating with his facial gestures would be to acknowledge the pain that he just encountered, and to try to take ownership of it. This way he leads by example. And validates his real feeling versus putting up a fake front. Stuart is perceived as a hero in the movie but he is not because he did not find his own way. Instead he started judging his father versus helping him. Abondonment is often not the answer to dysfunction, as it creates more emotional distress. Perhaps it was not the intention of the film director to show a movie about what not to do, but I think it is a great example of a fallacy in humanity, I.e. to leave the one who you care most about behind.

One of the best SNL movies?

[michael.e.barrett · 4 September 2000]

That doesn't sound like an accomplishment, since the best SNL movies are probably "Blues Brothers" and "Wayne's World," and both are uneven. Furthermore, Stuart Smalley seems at first glance like one of the most obnoxious characters to base a movie around. He has characteristics that turn a lot of people off (effeminate, new agey, "caring"), but Franken shows that this veneer is painfully constructed over anger and hurt, and you end up actually liking him better the more time you spend with him. (The TV skits tend to just make fun of him.) One of the movie's most interesting scenes is between Franken and Laura San Giacomo when he tells her "I love you." In any other Hollywood movie, this would be a romantic-interest scene, because everyone knows you can't have a male and female star in a movie without their getting together. Well, here it's that incredibly rare thing: a scene of genuine friendship and support, with Stuart's sexuality left out of the question. To me, that's more impressive than if they got into a liplock.

Surprisingly Redeemable

[snyre · 7/10 · 18 February 2001]

This goes on my "Top 10 Regardless of Reviews" list--movies that provide a good waste of 2 hours without much intellectual investment.

I was surprised at how affected I was by this movie. It helps that I find Al Franken to be a subversively hilarious genius, but I was also touched by how many people could probably relate to the "so sad you have to laugh" family situations. Want to find humor in how much your family sucks? Rent this one.

Great movie

[alba500 · 10/10 · 28 August 2007]

This is one of best comedies of all times. The psychology of the main character is very incisive and realistic. However it is put in a grotesque context. Other characters are also very true to life or rather caricatures of certain types of people. The brother and the father of the main character seem to bring up the politically correct goofiness and dorkines of Al Franken. The Mother cuts also a very real and yet exaggerated person. The plot flows well and the whole dysfunctional family is funny and sad at the same time. The friends of Al Franken are also funny in their pseudo psychological babble and pretense. I find this film to be so good that I have bought the DVD.

The Loneliest Movie

[fatcat-73450 · 6/10 · 26 November 2021]

This movie has always felt like a very lonely movie to me.

Stuart Smalley (the main character) is constantly surrounded by people, yet he seems to have no really deep and meaningful relationships. His family doesn't like or understand him, it seems nothing is really going to happen with his best (female) friend Julia (they share a lip peck at the end but it's extremely ambiguous and tame), and his most passionate relationships seems to be with his ex-boss, with whom he shares a mutual hatred.

Stuart is no less quirky and comical than any of your standard SNL characters. He's an effeminate devotee of the 12-step-programs and new-age feel good popular psychology. He runs a cable access show and he fails at everything. He has no deep relationships, he has no money, his TV show, which seems to be the center of his world a la Wayne's World (1992), seems to have very mixed reviews... Most importantly, the self-help programs he uses to structure his life clearly don't work well - he's even more dramatic than the average person, going into spirals of self-loathing and self-pity frequently and apparently requiring constant interventions to get him through his low points.

It seems like a subtle critique of the whole industry which probably doesn't work so much in and of itself, but rather on the mechanisms of placebo effect and improved affect through social interaction.

I personally like this movie, but it's no heavy hitter. The stakes are, as the movie poster suggests (he's ironically holding up a sphere like Atlas, suggesting he's going to try to save the world), pathetically low and narrow. The movie involves him trying to solve certain petty family squabbles and failing at it.

It's also clearly meant to be a comedy with absurd situations, but it's not funny. It rarely gets a laugh from raw humour and it's not at all absurd enough to be funny in that regard; the only humour you could expect from it is a very low-key ironic sort of humour. He's delusional, he's a drama queen obsessed with self-help, he's too rigid to do something good for his family if it means going against his impractical values.

The final message is strong and consistent throughout the film - you need to focus on yourself because you can't really change others. I appreciate the effort and the movie effectively (if lightly) holds your attention for its run, but that's not enough to save this film. It was a box office bomb and deserved to be. It's niche.

Honourable Mentions: A Night at the Roxbury (1998). Another movie involving SNL alumni. It's equally bleak in a sense. Even though the main characters get all of the (petty) things they want at the center of the plot, by the end you get this impression that nothing's going to be OK with them. They have some serious personality flaws that are going to keep making their lives an eternal series of unimpressive hills and very low valleys.

This in a sweet, under rated movie....

[bill04250 · 8/10 · 16 September 2007]

Movies inspired by SNL characters seem to have a consistently bad reputation. But that reputation is usually based on the fact that the films failed at the box office. The truth is, they are good solid comedies that were never meant to be blockbusters. 'Stuart Saves His Family' is just such a film.

This film has a cast of excellent actors who portray tragedy and comedy with sublime skill. The script is heartfelt and funny. There is no mockery of recovery programs or the self-help movement. Instead, 'Stuart Saves His Family' evokes the all too real humor amid the tragedy that comes from being part of a dysfunctional family (and world).

AL Franken's deadpan deliver of Stuart's ridiculous, but charming self is the the heart of the movie. But equally good are Piper Laurie, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lesley Boone & Harris Yulin. All four play characters who could easily descend into shrill, two-dimensional background support to the wacky lead character. Thankfully, the actors all bring out the human beings inside their characters.

The message about finding your own definition of happiness and family is another of the movie's strong points.

I also recommend "Superstar", another SNL character driven movie, starring Molly Shannon. She's an excellent actress with a wicked, silly streak.